INSPIRATIONAL WORDS FROM 'A LITTLE PRINCESS' ..
- “It's true. Sometimes I do pretend I'm a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.” - Sara
- “There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.” - Sara
- “Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.” - Sara
- "It makes me feel as if something had hit me, And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.” - Sara
- "I wish we could be 'best friends.' Would you have me for yours? You're clever and I'm the stupidest child in the school, but I—oh, I do so like you!" - Ermengarde
- "I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers—even brave ones—don't really LIKE going into battle." - Sara
- "Beggars have nowhere to live," she said courageously. "I have a place to live in." - Sara
- "She is hungrier than I am," she said to herself. "She's starving." But her hand trembled when she put down the fourth bun. "I'm not starving," she said—and she put down the fifth. - Sara
- "I –TRIED not to be anything else," she answered in a low voice—"even when I was coldest and hungriest—I tried not to be." - Sara
- "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are." - Sara
- "To think that she was the girl with the diamond mines, She looks like an object." - Lavinia
- "If I'm a princess," she was saying, "if I'm a princess--when they were poor and driven from their thrones—they always shared—with the populace—if they met one poorer and hungrier than themselves." - Sara