& C'est La Vie Ariel

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn’t said afterward. There’s nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that’s stronger. It’s a good thing not to answer your enemies.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

—(via charizn)

There’s nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in — that’s stronger.

—Sara Crewe from A Little Princess (via graceakagracia)

chinadollsings:

Then it came about that another wonderful thing happened. A man came to the door and left several parcels. All were addressed in large letters: ‘To the Little Girl in the right-hand attic.’
Sara herself was sent to open the door, and took them in. She laid the two largest parcels on the hall…

And, somehow, Sara felt as if she understood her, though she said so little, and only stood still and looked and looked after her as she went out of the shop with the Indian gentleman, and they got into the carriage and drove away

—A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (thank you, sleepysorrows)

(Source: the-final-sentence)

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

—-Sara Crewe, A Little Princess (via reneechristopher)

(Source: embracevanity, via reneechristopher)