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She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
– Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  1. She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  2. Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  3. 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. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  4. If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. – King Amor – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  5. Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  6. Thoughts — just mere thoughts — are as powerful as electric batteries — as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  7. They’re a pair of young Satans. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  8. I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  9. Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  10. You said th’ Magic was in my back. Th’ doctor calls it rheumatics. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  11. Why, we 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! – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  12. We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  13. You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  14. … telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. – Abraham Verghese
  15. I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint. – DA Paul
  16. Whether anyone believes that fact is a fact or not, fact remains a fact – Adil Aijaz
  17. Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact. – MarieSabine Roger
  18. People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
  19. Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. – Michael Shermer
  20. Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies. – Frances Hardinge
  21. It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories. – JM Coetzee
  22. Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories. – Nicholas Dawidoff
  23. Whatever we sayWe’re always telling each other exactly what we want them to know…We are always telling each otherThe truthEven when We’re lying – Merrit Malloy
  24. . . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. – Neil Gaiman
  25. What is more important to a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it ex – Archibald MacLeish
  26. Why you like photography so much? Because it’s just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It’s telling stories. – Lindsey Kelk
  27. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
  28. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  29. If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don’t believe the fact or it is not a fact. – Raheel Farooq
  30. NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil. – Will Chabot
  31. But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who’s stopping us from inventing one? – Lewis Carroll
  32. Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge. – Muriel Barbery
  33. You don’t become a success by breaking the rules. You don’t become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules. – Chloe Thurlow
  34. How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. – Barbara Kingsolver
  35. Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow. – Paul Sloane
  36. People didn’t change. they liked what they liked even if they didn’t understand why. – Nicholas Sparks
  37. He said he liked my rhythm. I said I liked his heartbeat, and it was within that moment I knew our corners would never meet. – Dominic Riccitello
  38. He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone. – Toni Morrison
  39. Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it. – Robert Galbraith
  40. ….. He liked it that way. Liked giving people the wrong impression so that when he sprung what the ???? he really was on them it was too late. – Jordan Silver

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