being peculiar Quotes

“In a moment she returned, walking backwards. This was so she shouldn’t have to take the trouble to turn round when she went home.”

“It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map. For a second, Mr Dursley didn’t realize that he hadn’t seen - then he jerked his head around to look again. There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive.but there wasn’t a man in sight. What could he have been thinking of? It must have been a trick of the light. Mr Dursley blinked an stared at the cat. It stared back.”

“There is a strange and peculiar sensation experienced in recovering from a state of insensibility, which is almost indescribable; a sort of dreamy, confused consciousness; a half-waking half-sleeping condition, accompanied with a feeling of weariness, which, however, is by no means disagreeable.”