22 Quotes by Eleanor Farjeon

On Hallowe’en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them...

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.

It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing.

There’s Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord’s First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper’s tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there’s John, like John.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.

Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.