"I want her to look as if she wasn't a doll really," Sara said. "I want her to look as if she LISTENS when I talk to h…"

"I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."

"She was a child full of imaginings and whimsical thoughts, and one of her fancies was that there would be a great dea…"

"What I believe about dolls," she [Sara Crewe] said, "is that they can do things they will not let us know about. Perh…"

"I promised him I would bear it," she [Sara Crewe] said. "And I will. You have to bear things. Think what soldiers bea…"

"[W]e are just the same—I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!"

"Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed wh…"

"Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one."

"Whats'ever 'appens to you—whats'ever—you'd be a princess all the same—an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different."

"She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old lo…"