Quotes About Transformation

if you put enough raindrops together you have a river.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth

You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing.

When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood.

Fair fresh leaves, and buds—and buds—tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their brims and filling the garden air.

Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am living in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else.

Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary—she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.

The magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I am going to make the scientific experiment of trying to get some and put it in myself and make it push and draw me and make me strong. I don't know how to do it, but I think that if you keep thinking about it and calling it perhaps it will come.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm growing fatter, said Mary

To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't think it would be good if they stayed always

I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here myself. That

Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't want to be queer, and I'm not going to be. I'll shall stop being queer if I go every day to the garden. There is magic in there...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you keep doing it every day as regularly as soldiers go through drill we shall see what will happen and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.