Books crowbar the world open for you.

It’s like they’ve forgotten everything important, isn’t it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie’s life to tell between ‘carried away’ and ‘absolutely correct but unbelieved.

If you have money to waste on wishes, you don’t need the wishes as badly as I need the money.

Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of...

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

But it’s a child! You’re a man!””Your powers of observation are formidable,” said Charles. “You are a credit to your optician.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a...

Governments can do both great and stupid things.