Brendon Chase Quotes

“I wish him luck,’ said Robin, voicing his thoughts, ‘and may he live in the Chase for years and years and never be caught.”
― B.B., Brendon Chase

“We shan’t ever be free again,”
― B.B., Brendon Chase

“justice and the birch.”
― B.B., Brendon Chase

“a very English smell, nettles, elder, grass and rubbish.”
― B.B., Brendon Chase

“It seems to me this idea of going to school and then into business isn’t the natural way for a man to live, at least to my way of thinking. Don’t you see what most people are missing? Something which is fine and grand. Living like we do, I mean out in the open air. They’re getting farther and farther away from the natural life, nature and all that; they’re creating a world which is … Oh, I don’t know … I can’t jaw properly … but you know what I mean.”
― B.B., Brendon Chase

“The trees seemed to pray for rain; the little horse ponds outside the Chase shrank until only flaked and cracked hollows, like empty dishes, rewarded the maddened cows when they came to drink.”
― B.B., Brendon Chase

“it is possible, nay probable, that some wandering lovers spied that apparition rushing by, as they lingered in each other’s fond embrace among the honeysuckle.”
― B.B., Brendon Chase

“Then he began to feel frightened at the immensity of it all and his own littleness and at last he was glad to roll over and come to earth and watch the cosy flame-light playing about the faces of his brother outlaws.”
― B.B., Brendon Chase