Treacle Walker Quotes

“What the eye doesn’t see,”’ said the man, ‘“the heart doesn’t grieve for.” Or does it?”
― Alan Garner, Treacle Walker

“For at the very moment you have Now, it flees. It is gone. It is, on the instant, Then. Surely.”
― Alan Garner, Treacle Walker

“Iram, biram, brendon, bo,
Where did all the children go?
They went to the east. They went to the west.
They went where the cuckoo has its nest.”
― Alan Garner, Treacle Walker

“Treacle Walker? Me know that pickthank psychopomp? I know him, so I do. I know him. Him with his pots for rags and his bag and his bone and his doddering nag and nookshotten cart and catchpenny oddments. Treacle Walker? I’d not trust that one’s arse with a fart.”
― Alan Garner, Treacle Walker