A Traveller in Time Quotes

″‘You saw them? You’ve seen them?’ She looked at me with astonishment and then drew me into her arms. ‘It’s the secret of Thackers.’

“At each station somebody got out and the rest cried good-night, and sent messages to those at home. We felt they were all one family, they knew everybody and were friendly together.”

“All these scents and sounds are part of the story I have to tell, with light and darkness, shadows and tragedy interwoven.”

“My sore throat miraculously disappeared, so that I was quite well the very same day.”

“Aunt Tissie, I opened a door and saw some ladies sitting in a room. Who were they?”

“I followed as sedately as I could after her, but my feet wouldn’t move quietly, they felt they must dance as if they were bewitched by the strangeness of everything.”

“Aunt Tissie, I could live here for ever and ever.”

″‘They weren’t ghosts,’ I cried eagerly. ‘They were real, quite alive like you and me.‘”

“A whistling woman and a crowing hen deserves to have their heads cut off?′

“She is one with us, a part of Thackers. Thackers is like a rock, sheltering us.”