“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
We loved our Mother/Daughter book club that we started in Knoxville (thanks to inspiration from Julie Hunt!) so we decided to get one started up here in Seattle. We read The Secret Garden this fall and had a delightful afternoon talking about the book, enjoying some elderflower cordial with our snacks, and making origami flowers together.
“The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.”
“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
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