Secret Garden – Page 2

I am sure there

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 Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two things cannot be

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Frances Hodgson Burnett

And the secret garden

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. Frances Hodgson Burnett

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. Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two worst things as

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it. Frances Hodgson Burnett

At first people refuse

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 and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you look the

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett

In those sticky summer

In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when … Read more

I cut a lot

I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more … Read more

Write what’s up there.

Write what’s up there. Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We’ve all got one of those. Jesus? No, Bruce Springsteen. Cecelia Ahern