# Quote — Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

> Mary’s lips pinched themselves together. She was no more used to considering other people than Colin was and she saw no reason why an ill-tempered boy should interfere with the thing she liked best. She knew nothing about the pitifulness of people who had been ill and nervous and who did not know that they could control their tempers and need not make other people ill and nervous, too. When she had had a headache in India she had done her best to see that everybody else also had a headache or something quite as bad. And she felt she was quite right; but of course now she felt that Colin was quite wrong.

- Author: [Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-hodgson-burnett.md)
- Book: [The Secret Garden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-hodgson-burnett/the-secret-garden.md)
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