James and the Giant Peach Quotes

“Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.”

“A little magic can take you a long way.”

“Something peculiar is about to happen any moment.”

″ I have never been a pest in my life. I am a musician. ”

“marvellous things will start happening to you, fabulous, unbelievable things – and you will never be miserable again in your life.”

“There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.”

″ ‘Action stations!’ James shouted. ‘Jump to it! There’s not a moment to lose!’ He was the captain now, and everyone knew it. They would do whatever he told them.”

“But the peach...ah, yes...the peach was a soft, stealthy traveler, making no noise as it floated along. And several times during that long silent night ride high up over the middle of the ocean in the moonlight, James and his friends saw things that no one had ever seen before.”

“Far below them, in the City of New York, something like pandemonium was breaking out. A great round ball as big as a house had been sighted hovering high up in the sky over the very center of Manhattan, and the cry had gone up that it was an enormous bomb sent over by another country to blow the whole city to smithereens.”

“After James Henry Trotter had been living with his aunts for three whole years there came a morning when something rather peculiar happened to him.”

″ And now suddenly, the whole place, the whole garden seemed to be alive with magic.”

“Don’t be frightened of us, please!” James called out. “We are so glad to be here!”

“I don’t mean to be rude, but I think it is ridiculous to have ears on the sides of one’s head. It certainly looks ridiculous. You ought to take a peek in the mirror some day and see for yourself.”

“Well, James, have you ever in your life seen such a marvellous colossal Centipede as me?”

“I am not loved at all. And yet I do nothing but good. All day long I catch flies and mosquitos in my webs. I am a decent person.”