"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…"

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

"How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a…"

"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…"