Alison Lurie

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden (Penguin Classics)

Bella

When new, beautiful thoughts began to push out the old, hideous ones, life began to come back to him.

Love the insight to the differences of the two girls. My favourite part is how it shows cold Mary warming up to Martha bit by bit 

Lauren

If Martha had been a well-trained fine young lady’s maid she would have been more subservient and respectful and would have known that it was her business to brush hair, and button boots, and pick things up and lay them away. She was, however, only an untrained Yorkshire rustic who had been brought up in a moorland cottage with a swarm of little brothers and sisters who had never dreamed of doing anything but waiting on themselves and on the younger ones who were either babies in arms or just learning to totter about and tumble over things. 

If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha’s readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner. At first she was not at all interested, but gradually, as the girl rattled on in her good-tempered, homely way, Mary began to notice what she was saying

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