4 Quotes by Penelope Farmer

And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know how to be, how to feel like, Charlotte? Were you some particular person only because people recognized you as that?

Charlotte looked up doubtfully, wondering why, as she got older, she seemed to be more afraid of things, not less.

Charlotte believed in ghosts, for after all, she had been a kind of ghost herself.

Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window.