Quotes from Philippa Pearce

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

A habit of solitude in early childhood is not easily broken. Indeed, it may prove lifelong.

You're very old, aren't you?" "Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

1 am not "up to" anything, Cousin Edgar.

If you don't get it, you don't get it." ... "If you don't get it, you may yet.

Mrs Bartholomew did not cry, because she had done all her crying for that so long ago.

When you're my age, Tom, you live in the Past a great deal. You remember it; you dream of it.