Jill Murphy Quotes

“DRIP, DRIP... went the leaky kitchen top. HMMMMM... went the refrigerator. ‘Oh NO,’ said Mr. Bear, ‘I can’t stand THIS!‘”

“He was just falling asleep when all the birds started to sing and the sun peeped in at the window. ‘TWEET, TWEET!’ went the birds. SHINE SHINE went the sun.”

“TICK-TOCK... went the living room clock... TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK. CUCKOO! CUCKOO! ‘Oh NO!’ said Mr. Bear, ‘I can’t stand THIS!‘”

″‘Never mind,’ said Mrs. Bear. ‘I’ll bring you a nice cup of tea.’ And she did.”

“The hour was late. Mr. Bear was tired, Mrs. Bear was tired and Baby Bear was tired...”

“Mrs. Bear began to snore. ‘SNORE,’ went Mrs. Bear, ‘SNORE, SNORE, SNORE.’ ‘Oh NO!’ said Mr. Bear, ‘I can’t stand THIS’.”

“Baby Bear was not asleep either. He was lying in bed pretending to be an aeroplane. ‘NYAAOW!’ went Baby Bear, ‘NYAAOW! NYAAOW!’ ‘Oh NO!’ said Mr. Bear, ‘I can’t stand THIS.‘”

“Well, you would not believe what noises there are in the garden at night.”

″‘Peace at last,’ he said to himself.”

“It was cold in the car and uncomfortable, but Mr. Bear was so tired that he didn’t notice.”

“BRRRRRRRRR! went the alarm clock, BRRRRR! Mrs. Bear sat up and rubbed her eyes. ‘Good morning, dear,’ she said. ‘Did you sleep well?‘”

“Mildred Hubble was in her first year at the school. She was one of those people who always seem to be in trouble. She didn’t exactly mean to break rules and annoy teachers, but things just seemed to happen whenever she was around.”

“It was the usual type of school song, full of pride, joy, and striving. Mildred had never yet mixed a potion with joy, nor flown her broomstick with pride- she was usually too busy trying to keep upright!”

“Everything about the school was dark and shadowy. There were long, narrow corridors and winding staircases- and of course there were the girls themselves, dressed in black gymslips, black stockings, black hob-nailed boots, grey shirts and black-and-grey ties. Even their summer dresses were black-and-grey checked.”

“Miss Cackle was a very traditional headmistress who did not believe in any new-fangled nonsense and trained her young witches to keep up all the customs that had been taught in her young day.”

“Mildred had three bats in her room, little furry ones which were very friendly. She was fond of animals and was looking forward to the next day when she would have a kitten of her own.”

“There were so many rules that you couldn’t do anything without being told off, and there seemed to be tests and exams every week.”

“To tell you the truth, Mildred was afraid of the dark, but don’t tell anyone. I mean, whoever heard of a witch who was scared of the dark?”

“Mildred was the last of all, and when she reached the table Miss Cackle pulled out of the basket not a sleek black kitten like all the others but a little tabby with white paws and the sort of fur that looked as if it had been out all night in a gale.”