Narrator (Swallows and Amazons) Quotes

“It was like exploring a place that you have seen in a dream, where everything is just where you expect it and yet everything is a surprise.”

“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never take part.”

“They were all rather big pearls, but no one really minds a pearl being big, and soon the pearl-divers had a pile of wet and shining jewels by the water-side. The worst of it was that as soon as the stones were dry- and they dried quickly in the sun- they stopped shining, and could not be counted as pearls anymore.”