Tilly and the Lost Fairytales Quotes

“Books aren't interested in who is reading them... A book will welcome any reader; any age, any background, any point of view. Books don't care if you can't understand every word in them, or if you want to skip bits or reread bits. Books welcome everyone who wants to explore them, and thankfully no one has ever worked out a way to stop that.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairytales

“No one is too old for a story before bed,”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“There are no rules for reading, after all.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Do not wait too long for something special to present itself. Go out and find it.”
― Anna James, The Lost Fairy Tales

“Christmas at the bookshop is the best.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“But not really at your service, you understand, it’s a symbolic thing. I’m a prince – I’m not going to actually help you with anything.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairytales

“Find your own path! Don’t just blindly follow the one laid out in front of you.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Magic”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Words can mean much more, or less, than they seem, and we can put them to such creative uses.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairytales

“The magic in books that lets us be part of them, and them part of us. I have to believe that if the world were in danger of ignoring the power of stories, or that people started thinking in terms of the limits of their bodies and not the scope of their imaginations, there is something, or someone, or a group of someones, who would do something.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“All stories are rooted in something real, even the most fantastical and impossible ones,” Gretchen said. “Just like these fairy stories all grew from real people or ideas or feelings.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“But there was a magic in helping people find the perfect book for someone they loved, and the Christmas spirit finally got into her bones.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Matilda,” her grandad said, his voice cracking. “It’s Boxing Day. You’ve been missing for nearly two days.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Tilly, I think you might be onto something.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“is rare that the people who want to be in power are the best people to do it.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Nothing is truly impossible inside a book.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“There is Magic in there—good Magic, you know, Mary. I am sure there is.” “So am I,” said Mary. “Even if it isn’t real Magic,” Colin said, “we can pretend it is. Something is there—something!” “It’s Magic,” said Mary, “but not black. It’s as white as snow.” They always called it Magic and indeed it seemed like it in the months that followed—the wonderful months—the radiant months—the amazing ones. Oh! the things which happened in that garden! If you have never had a garden, you cannot understand, and if you have had a garden you will know that it would take a whole book to describe all that came to pass there. At first it seemed that green things would never cease pushing their way through the earth, in the grass, in the beds, even in the crevices of the walls. Then the green things began to show buds and the buds began to unfurl and show color, every shade of blue, every shade of purple, every tint and hue of crimson. In its happy days flowers had been tucked away into every inch and hole and corner. . . . Iris and white lilies rose out of the grass in sheaves, and the green alcoves filled themselves with amazing armies of the blue and white flower lances of tall delphiniums or columbines or campanulas.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Are you too old to have a story before bed?” said Bea, popping her head around the door. “I don’t mind who does the telling.” “No one is too old for a story before bed,” Tilly said.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“grateful.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales