Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Cited by

• Meg Cabot (13)
  • IN: Bad Heir Day (2007) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ah, yes, Your Royal Highness,' she said. 'We are princesses I believe. At least, one of us is.' Sara felt the blood rush up into her face. She only just saved herself. If you were a princess, you did not fly into rages. 'It's true,' she said. 'Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess so I can try to behave like one.'
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Book, UK
  • IN: A Royal Disaster (2001) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When things are horrible – just horrible – I think as hard as ever I can of being a princess. I say to myself, "I am a princess." You don't know how it makes you forget.'
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Book, UK
  • IN: Crowning Glory (2008) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's exactly like the ones in the stories,' she wailed. 'Them pore princess ones that was drove into the world.'
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Book, UK
  • IN: Prom Princess (2003) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's true,' she said. 'Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a pricness so I can try to behave like one.'
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Book, UK
  • IN: Royally Obsessed (2002) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I was a princess – a real princess,' she murmured, 'I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if I am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that to do things people like is scattering largess.'
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Book, UK
  • IN: Royal Scandal (2007) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I suppose' – to Sara – 'that you feel now that you are a princess again.' 'I tried not to be anything else,' she answered in a low voice. 'Even when I was coldest and hungriest. I tried not to be.'
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Book, UK
  • IN: Princess in the Middle (2002) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One of Sara's "pretends" is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time – even in school. She wants Ermengarde to be one too, but Ermengarde says she is too fat.' 'She is too fat,' said Lavinia. 'And Sara is too thin.' ' Sara says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.'
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Book, UK
  • IN: Princess Diaries: Bad Heir Day (2007) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Ah, yes, Your Royal Highness," she said. "We are princesses I believe. At least, one of us is." Sara felt the blood rush up into her face. She only just saved herself. If you were a princess, you did not fly into rages. "It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess so I can try to behave like one."
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Novel, UK
  • IN: Princess Diaries: Prom Princess (2003) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one."
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Novel, UK
  • IN: Princess Diaries: Royally Obsessed (2002) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "If I WAS a princess--a REAL princess," she murmured, "I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if I am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that to do things people like is scattering largess. I've scattered largess."
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Novel, UK
  • IN: Princess Diaries: Crowning Glory (2008) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "It's exactly like the ones in the stories," she wailed. "Them pore princess ones that was drove into the world."
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Novel, UK
  • IN: Princess Diaries: Royal Rebel (2004) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "She will be more a princess than she ever was--a hundred and fifty thousand times more."
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Novel, UK
  • IN: Royal Wedding (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She will be more a princess than she ever was -- a hundred and fifty thousand times more.
    FROM: A Little Princess, (1905), Novel, US/England
• Toni Blake (2)
  • IN: Take Me All the Way (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do you want to live?
    FROM: The Secret Garden, (1911), NULL, UK
  • IN: Take Me All the Way: A Coral Cove Novel (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Do you want to live?"
    FROM: The Secret Garden, (1911), Novel, US/England