Quotes from Helen Cresswell

A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

Further communication with her husband seemed hopeless. Between them yawned the chasm that divides those who have consumed champagne before breakfast from those who have not.

I live inside my head," he told himself. "So does everyone in a way. So what goes on in there, must count. It must count a lot. I shall always live in my head, wherever I go or whatever I do for the whole of my life. So why shouldn't I be at home in there?

I got born in the wrong family.