'Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.'Author
'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-'Mary
'It's the garden without a door. He lives in there. It's the robin who showed the way.'Mary
'Everything is so out-of-the-way down here.'Mary
'The truth is, if a young lady is brought up right, she won't be tempted by a drunken devil.'Medlock
'I am not at all sure that I shall ever send you anywhere.'Mr. Craven
'I want to see everything,' He said. 'It is my right.'Colin
'But she came alive and run out when the springtime came.'Ben
'You needn't be so vexed. You can go in the garden.'Medlock
'You know he thinks I forgot him, but I didn't.'Martha
'Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.'Author
'To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.'Mary
'One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.'Author
'We're neither of us good lookin' an' we're both of us as sour as we look.'Martha
'I won't have people saying things like that about me. I will live. And you shall stop being a hunchback.'Colin
'It does not matter where people are if they are like each other.'Medlock
'I think she's a very nice little girl and I think she's been very lonely.'Martha
'When the sun shines on you, you usually get well.'Dickon
'I must go and look after him. I am his mother.'Mary
'I am a selfish man...I told you once that I did not care about anything. It was true then. It is not true now.'Mr. Craven