You are a selfish thing!" cried Colin. "What are you?" said Mary. "Selfish people always say that. Any one is selfish who doesn't do what they want. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Then something began pushing things up out of the soil and making things out of nothing. One day things weren’t there and another they were. I had never watched things before and it made me feel very curious. Scientific people are always curious and I am going to be scientific. I keep saying to myself, ’What is it? What is it?’ It’s something. It can’t be nothing!

Eh!" she said, "but you are like an old woman. Don't you care?"
"It doesn't matter," said Mary, "whether I care or not."
"You are right enough there," said Mrs. Medlock. "It doesn't.

The rain is as contrary as I ever was," she said. "It came because it knew I did not want it.