The Ghost of Thomas Kempe Quotes

“Leave it till the morning. We’ll all feel stronger then.”
― Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

“You think back. And often it seems more real than now. I mean, here I am, like this, but in my mind it’s like I was different. Young, you see. You never really believe you’re not anymore.”
― Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

“James would have liked to contribute comfort of some kind, but he only had a gob-stopper in his pocket, coated with fluff, which seemed an inadequate offering.”
― Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

“Still, if that’s the way she feels about it there’s not much use you going home now and saying “Look mum, I got a bloke coming in tomorrow to see about the ghost”, is there?”
― Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

“Ghosts?’ Said Mrs Verity. ‘Why, good gracious, I could tel you a thing or two about ghosts. Believe in them? Well, what I always say is, we don’t know the answers to everything, do we? I mean, there’s some things in this world you can’t explain and maybe we’re not meant to.”
― Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

“Life must go on, no matter how large your problems may be.”
― Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

“I’m afraid I can’t do the things you want me to do because people don’t go in much for sorcery nowadays. I don’t think they’d be very interested.”
― Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

“Helen,’ said Mr Harrison, with a sigh, ‘we all know that living with James can be very trying. But it does help to develop a resistance to some of his more flagrant lines of deception.”
― Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe