"If I go on talking and talking...and..." - Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”

“The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.”

“You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.”

“I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.”

“If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.”

“Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.”

“Marley was dead: to begin with.”

“I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.”

“I can find my biography in every fable that I read.”