Gideon the Cutpurse Quotes

“Gadzooks sir!”
― Linda Buckley-Archer, Gideon the Cutpurse

“They have locked up my body, but can imprision neither my mind nor my soul.”
― Linda Buckley-Archer, Gideon the Cutpurse

“They hung, like mirages, shimmering in the future, and the closer you got to them the more you expected them to disappear. When his mother had gone over to work in the States for the first time and his father was supposed to have been making a special effort, Mr. Schock had still managed to turn up at Sports Day after Peter’s big race. There was always another meeting, another client, another urgent matter demanding his attention.”
― Linda Buckley-Archer, The Time Travelers

“We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.”
― Linda Buckley-Archer, Gideon the Cutpurse