51 Quotes by D.E. Stevenson

Bel let her talk – as a matter of fact it would have been difficult to stop her – and there was no harm in listening as long as she did not allow herself to believe a word Louise was saying. It’s a dream, thought Bel. It’s a fairy-tale. Fairy-tales don’t happen.

Books are people,″ smiled Miss Marks. ″In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.

The Johnstones’ farm was called Mureth and was about five miles from Drumburly.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one’s childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

In the course of my wanderings I have started life anew in many places, and in every place the same thing happens: at first there is little to do, one knows nobody and life passes by like a pageant, then gradually the world breaks in and one becomes a part of the pageant instead of a mere spectator.

It was just the old house creaking in the wind, and talking to itself about all it had seen, and the big cheerful families which it had sheltered and sent forth into the world.

Death is not the saddest way to lose somebody you love.

I can take a book in my hands and voyage across the world. China, Burma, Jamaica – the very sound of the words is an enchantment bringing me sights and sounds, and odors that my senses have never savored.

It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.