Lucy Fitch Perkins Quotes

“I caught more than you did. I caught you!”

“You can’t tell what a girl may be by the time she’s four feet and a half high and is called Katrina. There’s no telling what girls will do anyway.”

“If there were no walls to shut out the sea, the whole country would be covered with water; and if that were so, then there wouldn’t be any Holland, or any Holland Twins, or any story.”

″‘Kit, do you s’pose we’ve got to be married?’ ‘It looks like it,’ said Kit. Things seemed very dark indeed to the twins.”

″‘I can think a little bit, too,’ said Kat. ‘Can’t I go?’ ‘No,’ said Vrouw Vedder. ‘Girls shouldn’t think much. It isn’t good for them. Leave thinking to the men.‘”

“The Twins thought it must be grand to live on a boat like that, just going about from town to town, seeing new sights every day.”

“There are no cows like our Dutch cows in all the world, I believe.”

“You see, in Holland there are a great many canals. They cross the fields like roadways of water, and that is what they really are.”

″...it’s much easier to be polite when you aren’t hungry.”