“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.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
Nice quote and photo, Penny! Is that the author of The Secret Garden? I don’t know ‘A Little Princess’, but I’m intrigued now.
Thank you, Juliet. Yes, Burnett is the author of The Secret Garden. If you enjoyed that, you should enjoy A Little Princess.
One of my favourite books. I adore Frances HB!
Me, too. Now I must find a cozy summer spot to read The Secret Garden again this summer.