“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

“The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.”

“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.”

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

“As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.”

“In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.”