George's Marvelous Medicine Quotes

“Could it be, George wondered, that she was a witch? He had always thought witches were only in fairy tales, but now he was not so sure.”

″‘Never grow up,’ she said, ‘always down.‘”

“But we have to grow, Grandma. If we didn’t grow, we’d never be grown-ups.”

“Most grandmothers are lovely, kind, helpful old ladies, but not this one.”

“A big fat earwig is very tasty.”

″‘Does chocolate make you grow?’ ‘It makes you grow the wrong way,’ she snapped. ‘Up instead of down.‘”

″‘So be a good boy and don’t get into mischief.’ This was a silly thing to say to a small boy at any time. It immediately made him wonder what sort of mischief he might get into.”

“From now on, you must eat cabbage three times a day. Mountains of cabbage! And if it’s got caterpillars in it, so much the better!”

“George didn’t say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.”

“I gave up growing when I was extremely small, along with all the other nasty childish habits like laziness and disobedience and greed and sloppiness and untidiness and stupidity.”