"We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!"
- P.L. Travers
"But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her."
"I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!"
"This is the way the wheel turns, coming at last to full circle, with wild as well as tame at he crib; lion and turtle-dove together an barnyard beasts lying down with the fox. For wild and tame are bu..."
"That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't that what you wanted?" said the trout. "I thought you wished you could see the sea!"I did," said Jane, ..."
"Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time."
"A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular."
"Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?"
"It was not very long afterwards that Michael woke up one morning with a curious feeling inside him. He knew, the moment he opened his eyes, that something was wrong but he was not quite sure what it w..."