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“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by.
I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied.
And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon."
Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?"
The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons.”
― P.L. Travers

“Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.”
― P.L. Travers

“Don' t you know that everybody 's got a Fairyland of their own?
-Mary Poppins”
― P.L. Travers

“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.”
― P.L. Travers, About the Sleeping Beauty

“A writer is,after all,only half his book.The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
― P.L. Travers

“If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.”
― P.L. Travers

“That's coral!" she cried in astonisment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"
Well, wasn't that what you wanted?" said the trout. "I thought you wished you could see the sea!"
I did," said Jane, looking very surprised. "But I never expected the wish to come true."
Great oceans! Why bother to wish it then? I call that simply a waste of time. But come on! Mustn't be late for the party!”
― P.L. Travers

“And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him...His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins Comes Back