58 Quotes by Geraldine McCaughrean

Though we were fearfully weary by the end of the third day, our quarrels were still spirited and our friendships firm fixed.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

...I hold it unmannerly if you are about to tell us your wife's failings without her here to defend herself.

Why don't you come with me?""Why? Where are you going?""Home. I've had enough. I hate England.""Hate England?" It was too much to grasp, with a head full of searing headache.

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland.In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

Tell me a story,' demanded Fireflyer.'Why? Do you eat them, too, then?''Only the ohs and ayes and ees and oos. The Kays are too spikey and the zeds are too buzzzy and the ones with the dots get stuck in your teeth and the esses sometimes slide down inside your vest and tickle.

We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!

These things happen. It is not the end of the world.