5 Quotes by Emma Carroll

Being the only ones here from our school, we didn’t have a teacher, so we stood near a group that did, hoping the billeting officer who was handing out labels would tell us what to do.

Mr. Barrowman’s going with you. When you get there he’ll be teaching you in the village school, isn’t that nice?

I didn’t want to look at her. But she took hold of my chin and gazed deep into my face. It was like she was trying to remember me, even though I was still there.

Listen to that,’ she said, finger raised. ‘Planes.’I frowned. ‘Planes? What, like aeroplanes?’‘German ones, I’ll bet you, on their way to bomb poor Plymouth again.’Mrs. Drummond was right. There, on the wind, was the unmistakable drone of aircraft. A familiar dread grew in the pit of my stomach. ‘I’d better go,’ I said and hurried away, anxious to find Cliff.

And until we found Sukie I was the big sister, the responsible one. That was pretty alarming too.