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1 " The same day, he took Sara out and bought her a great many beautiful clothes—clothes so grand and rich that only a very young and inexperienced man would have bought them for a mite of a child who was to be brought up in a boarding-school. But the fact was that he was a rash, innocent young man, and very sad at the thought of parting with his little girl, who was all he had left to remind him of her beautiful mother, whom he had dearly loved. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

2 " وقتی دارند به آدم توهین می کنند هیچ چیز بهتر از سکوت نیست. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

3 " Sara went to it and sat down. She was a queer child, as I have said before, and quite unlike other children. She seldom cried. She did not cry now. She laid her doll, Emily, across her knees, and put her face down upon her, and her arms around her, and sat there, her little black head resting on the black crape, not saying one word, not making one sound. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

4 " It really was a very strange feeling she had about Emily. It arose from her being so desolate. She did not like to own to herself that her only friend, her only companion, could feel and hear nothing. She wanted to believe, or to pretend to believe, that Emily understood and sympathized with her, that she heard her even though she did not speak in answer. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

5 " They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

6 " Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving for everything readable, was often severe upon them in her small mind. They had books they never read; she had no books at all. If she had always had something to read, she would not have been so lonely. She liked romances and history and poetry; she would read anything. There was a sentimental housemaid in the establishment who bought the weekly penny papers, and subscribed to a circulating library, from which she got greasy volumes containing stories of marquises and dukes who invariably fell in love with orange-girls and gypsies and servant-maids, and made them the proud brides of coronets; and Sara often did parts of this maid's work so that she might earn the privilege of reading these romantic histories. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

7 " It sounds nicer than it seems in the book," she would say. "I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always hated the French Revolution, but you make it seem like a story." "It is a story," Sara would answer. "They are all stories. Everything is a story—everything in this world. You are a story—I am a story—Miss Minchin is a story. You can make a story out of anything. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

8 " شاید در هر چیزی روحی وجود دارد که می تواند بدون هیچ صدایی با روح دیگر صجبت کند. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

9 " You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order you to execution. I only spare you because I am a princess, and you are a poor, stupid, old, vulgar thing, and don't know any better. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

10 " I was thinking," she said. "Beg my pardon immediately," said Miss Minchin. "I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude," said Sara; "but I won't beg your pardon for thinking. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

11 " SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1891 Copyright, 1888, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. "

― Frances Hodgson Burnett , Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's