14 Quotes by Mary Norton

Human beans are for Borrowers – like bread’s for butter!

And what if it were only a story?” said Mrs. May quickly, “so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don’t be so literal. Anything we haven’t experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.

Keep your warm hearts, your gentleness, and your courage. These will do just as well as magic.

Homily would renew it at intervals when it became available upstairs, but since Aunt Sophy.

In this life,” he went on, “you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn’t.