The Borrowers Afield Quotes

“Misfortunes make us wise”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

“An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night—wind, too, if it could be managed; and it should be situated on a moor (“bleak,” Kate knew, was the adjective here). And there should be scullions; mine host should be gravy-stained and broad in the beam with a tousled apron pulled across his stomach; and there should be a tall, dark stranger—the one who speaks to nobody—warming thin hands before the fire. And the fire should be a fire—crackling and blazing, laid with an impossible size log and roaring its great heart out up the chimney. And there should be some sort of cauldron, Kate felt, somewhere about—and, perhaps, a couple of mastiffs thrown in for good measure.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

“It's so awful and sad,” she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, “to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

“In this life,” he went on, “you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn’t.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

“The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield