Victor Quotes

“‘There is nothing like love. You should try it.’ Thibault shrugged. ‘Maybe one day.’”

“Morris’s brother, Victor, got a hockey outfit. Morris’s sister, Rose, got a beauty kit. Morris’s other sister, Betty, got a chemistry set. And Morris got a bear.”

“All Christmas day Victor played hockey and Rose made herself beautiful and Betty mixed acids.”

“Morris was too young to play with chemicals, said Betty, he might blow up the house. He was too little to play hockey, said Victor, he might get hurt.”

“He was too little to play hockey, said Victor, he might get hurt.”

“ ‘Morris,’ said Victor, ‘I hope you remember where you put the bag.’ But Morris was already fast asleep.”

“Morris came out of his bag. ‘Where were you?’ asked Victor. ‘I was in my Disappearing Bag’, said Morris.”

“Morris held open his bag. Everybody disappeared at once. Then he zoomed and mixed and beautified until bedtime.”

“We meet the bright middle-class Andrew whose father’s job takes his laid-back family to a more rural location, and Victor who, playing up to a reputation for being academically backward at school, is patently dyslexic and would probably be diagnosed today as on the autism spectrum. ”

“Two schoolboys in 1980s Norfolk are thrown together with nothing to suggest they have anything in common except being outsiders in their school, Andrew whose family are incomers and Victor who would be possibly be identified now as having learning difficulties.”