Explore Book Quotes

″ I have secret plans and clever tricks”

“Well, I never! There’s no getting round it, you can work when you’re a mind to, Tom.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

“At first, Hide-Away was afraid that the Storm Boy would get lost. The shore stretched on and on for ninety miles, with every sandhill and bush and tussock like the last one, so that a boy who hadn’t learnt to read the beach carefully might wander up and down for hours without finding the spot that led back home.”

“Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises.”

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”

“You can fly me”

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

“The buildings are made of fieldstone and all the windows need washing.”

“So, surrender to sleep at last. What a misery, keeping watch through the night, wide awake -- you’ll soon come up from under all your troubles.”