Quote of the Day for Friday, October 2, 2026

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, 1911

Our note: The narrator on the rare mornings when life feels endless.

Verified in the full text of The Secret Garden on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #113

Painted the same decade: Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971), Auguste Renoir, 1914

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