«Маленькая принцесса / A Little Princess» adlı sesli kitaptan alıntılar, sayfa 6

Новая мысль может остановить плач ребенка, если все другое бессильно.

Когда кому-то нравишься, хочется сказать «спасибо».

Я люблю мечтать. Без этого, наверное, я не смогла бы жить.

Иногда такое случается - даже если ты с людьми и словом не перемолвился. Если о них думать, наблюдать их и жалеть, они становятся тебе как родные.

Она поступала так, как подсказывало ей сердце, - ведь это Природа так распорядилась, что ей нравилось давать, а не брать. А если Природа сделала тебя дающей, руки твои и сердце всегда раскрыты.

If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

There is nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in - that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.

When you will not fly into a passion people know that you are storonger 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.

When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word - just to look at them and think.

Captain Crewe laughed outright at this. He was young and full of fun, and he never tired of hearing Sara's queer speeches."Oh, little Sara," he said. "What shall I do when I have no one to say solemn things to me? No one else is as solemn as you are.""But why do solemn things make you laugh so?" inquired Sara."Because you are such fun when you say them," he answered, laughing still more.