A Little Princess Quotes
American novels, Children's books, Young adult fiction
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“I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”
“Some very odd things happen in this world sometimes.”
“EVERYTHING'S a story. You are a story—I am a story.”
“[T]o be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.”
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“[W]e are just the same—I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!”
“Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”
“Whats'ever 'appens to you—whats'ever—you'd be a princess all the same—an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.”
“"I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude," she [Sara Crewe] said then; "but I won't beg your pardon for thinking."”
“A Little Princess is a modern version of a familiar fairy tale, and it has gained thematic and symbolic richness in Burnett's retelling.”
“"There isn't any banquet left, Emily," she [Sara Crewe] said. "And there isn't any princess. There is nothing left but the prisoners in the Bastille."”
“Here the Indian gentleman lost his temper. "As to starving in the streets," he said, "she might have starved more comfortably there than in your attic."”
“The main character of A Little Princess, Sara Crewe, is clever, well behaved, noble, lovable and, in many respects, exemplary for young readers.”
“Nothing but a doll—doll—doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a DOLL!”
“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”
“She was a child full of imaginings and whimsical thoughts, and one of her fancies was that there would be a great deal of comfort in even pretending that Emily was alive and really heard and understood.”
“Early in the novel, the narrator establishes Sara as a child better versed with narrative than social experiences: a child, that is, less trained in cultural codes of behavior than in imaginative scripts.”
“And, somehow, Sara felt as if she understood her, though she said so little, and only stood still and looked and looked after her as she went out of the shop with the Indian gentleman, and they got into the carriage and drove away.”