Sara Stanley, si Gadis Pendongeng, kembali ke Carlisle untuk menghabiskan musim dingin bersama keluarga King. Untuk membantu melewatkan bulan-bulan musim dingin yang membosankan, dia mengusulkan ke…
Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”
“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
“If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
“I hope, or I could not live.”
"Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims."
The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid
“A man has to be very careful, not only of his fists, but of his words.”
“A thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence.”
“Let anyone speak long enough, he will get believers.”
“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility.”
“And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
“When one wishes to do a thing, one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.”
“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!”
"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad."
KISAH ini dimulai ketika Mary Lennox, yang ditinggal mati oleh ayah dan ibunya karena kolera, harus pindah dari India ke Inggris. Di India, gadis kecil ini memiliki banyak pelayan yang memanjakanny…
“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.”
"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."