Peter Grant Quotes

“It all began with Peter’s toothache. You wouldn’t think anything really nice could come out of having a toothache, would you? Well, this time it did.”

“He didn’t remember this street, and what is more, he hadn’t known there were any old houses in new little Radcliff-on-the-sea. ‘But then,’ he told himself sensibly, ‘I don’t know everything!‘”

“Magic. Magic had happened to him. He knew it would one day. He had always believed in magic, even when the others had laughed at him, laughed because he was the eldest and ought to know better.”

″‘You don’t believe me,’ he said at last. ‘Well I don’t expect you to! I wouldn’t myself unless I saw it with my own eyes. But I wish, I wish it would happen. I wish the ship would take us somewhere — anywhere!‘”

″‘It’s a dream. I’m dreaming it. You’ve all come into my dream!’ ‘My dream!’ said Sandy in the kind of voice that means to go on arguing. ‘It isn’t a dream,’ Peter said happily. ‘It’s happening. And it’s real.‘”

″‘I think you were meant to keep it Peter,’ she said softly. ‘I think that’s part of the magic.‘”