10 Quotes & Sayings By Margaret Landon

Margaret Landon was a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction, best known for her classic children's books. She was born in 1880 in New York City and died there in 1952. She was a friend and correspondent of Walt Whitman and a cousin to Tennessee Williams. One of her best known works is The Secret Garden, which she began writing at the age of twelve Read more

The book was published in 1911 when she was twenty-four years old. In 1915, she wrote The Lost Prince, which was meant to be used as a companion piece to the original Secret Garden.

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Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world. Margaret Landon
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When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening. Margaret Landon
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That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations Margaret Landon
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Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful. Margaret Landon
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If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain? Margaret Landon
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The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind. Margaret Landon
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Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20! Margaret Landon
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She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort. Margaret Landon
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The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed. Margaret Landon