Explore Book Quotes

“One of the gasping joys of summer was my daily bath in the spring. It was cold water, I never stayed in long, but it woke me up and started me into the day with a vengeance.”

“Here and there one sat upright on an ant heap and looked about, with ears erect and nose in the wind. But a blackbird, singing undisturbed on the outskirts of the wood, showed that there was nothing alarming there, and in the other direction, along the brook, all was plain to be seen, empty and quiet. The warren was at peace.”

“One who becomes a prince through the favour of the people ought to keep them friendly, and this he can easily do seeing they only ask not to be oppressed by him.”

“There’s a thousand ways this could go wrong and only one way for it to go right.”

“If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”

“It needs time and care to get to know a man,”

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”

“I did have a mother, I know I did. I have to find her. I will. I WILL!”

“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

Wasn’t I right in saying that we were birds of a feather?”