"two things cannot be in one place. where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow."
THE SECRET GARDEN
THE SECRET GARDEN
"and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties."
"in the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of . if there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air."
