58 Quotes by Laurie Lee

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

I was reminding them of their lives and I think that was why it was read so much, but this was quite unintentional and unpredictable.

Here we lived and fed in a family fug, not minding the little space, trod on each other like birds in a hole, elbowed our ways without spite, all talking at once or silent at once, or crying against each other, but never I think feeling overcrowded, being as separate as notes in a scale.

I was last among the long grass and I'd never seen long grass and never been on my own and out of sight of humans before.

I remember trying to impress her by writing an essay about the Rocky Mountains and the bears and it was the first bad review I ever had - shameful!

Well, he was trying to get home - aren't we all, really, in the end?