The Country Child Quotes

“Everything seemed to move. The chimney-stacks swept across the Great Bear, the Pleiades were entangled in the elm’s boughs, a shooting star fell with a trail of gold, the trees dropped lower and lower as they climbed above them.”
― Alison Uttley, The Country Child

“When Susan went to the calf place, there in a nest of hay in the stall, lay a small, damp, red, curly-haired little calf, with shapely head and white face and body like a fawn’s.”
― Alison Uttley, The Country Child

“A friendly thing a shadow is, neither ugly nor unkind, a fantastic dancing friend.”
― Alison Uttley, The Country Child

“She wouldn’t be sad, she didn’t care if she were ugly; she had accepted her wistful elfin face as she accepted the birds and trees, as something which was part of the earth.”
― Alison Uttley, The Country Child