27 Quotes by Ellen Potter

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

People should have all their big adventures while they’re still under the age of fourteen. If you don’t, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.

Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you’ve brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don’t have a roof over your head for the night.

It’s alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

Mind your fingers though. She bites.

Rubbish,” Max said. “Anyone can put on clumpy boots and pierce themselves silly. A truly dangerous person would be someone you’d never even look at twice.

It seems like there’s something mysterious about what lives and what dies.” He saw that Roo’s face had gone grim, and he added, “But each time I find an animal that needs help, I help it as though I’m sure it will live.

If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @SomePig Twitter account? I doubt it. Yet, in a way, he'd be missing out because I'm beginning to think that some of this noise is worth making - and some of it is worth hearing, too.