The Whicharts Quotes

“Tania seemed to her such a jumbled person. To have such a real love of machinery, that the commonest engine was an object of beauty. To want so passionately to master machinery until it served you to its utmost limits, and yet to be yourself so tied to people. To have the brain and spirit that should make a pioneer, anchored to such a hyper-sensitive soul.”
― Noel Streatfeild, The Whicharts

“Walking down to where the bus stopped they picked handfuls of little mauve scabious. When they got to London Tania was still holding hers. She carried them up to the nursery and arranged them in a mug. She tried, as she looked at them, to bring back the downs. It seemed incredible that she had picked them only that morning. That the downs were still there without her. The sea still pouring over the rocks. And neither she nor Geoffrey there to see.”
― Noel Streatfeild, The Whicharts