THE SECRET GARDEN
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THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I
still get a warm fuzzy feeling when I think about this book and its overgrown
secret garden that eventually becomes what it should have been all along. You
let a few weeds get out of control and BAM—beauty gets buried. (The story of my
backyard life.) But of course, there's more to the story, where people grow.
First
Line: When Mary Lennox was sent to
Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most
disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
End
Line: And by his side, with his head up
in the air and his eyes full of laughter, walked as strongly and steadily as
any boy in Yorkshire—Master Colin!
One
of my favorite lines is the first sentence of Chapter 27. “And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed
new miracles.”
This
is sappy, but deep in my hardened heart I think of hope like that.
Inside every person is a seed of hope. Sometimes we keep it a
secret or pile (life) things on it. Sometimes we deny or ignore hope, but it's there waiting. When we allow hope to bloom, in our hearts, new miracles unfold.
I
told you it was sappy. I blame THE SECRET GARDEN.
Comments
Hank
I read The Secret Garden long ago and I found it fascinating. Mysterious. I need to reread it as adult and see how my perspective on this has changed. :)
Elizabeth Mueller
AtoZ 2015
My Little Pony