Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes About Magic
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I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well
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Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.
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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
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The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.
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Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
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Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Born: November 24, 1849
- Died: October 29, 1924
- Occupation: Playwright