“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 wher...”
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A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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“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 wher...”
“My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
“Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.”