P. L. Travers Quotes

We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!

And when, at last, .... I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost - the ancestors dwelling in my blood who, all my life, had summoned me with insistent eldritch voices, murmured together, like contented cats.

I’ll stay till the wind changes,” she said

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?

Mary Poppins,” he cried, “you’ll never leave us, will you?

Michael knew now what was happening to him. He knew he was going to be naughty.

"Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."

The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.

She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.

He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.

And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him...His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

You can't expect two stars to drop in the same field in one lifetime

There they were, all together, up in the air

Some people,” remarked Mary Poppins, putting her down, “think a great deal too much. Of that I am sure.

He knew, the moment he opened his eyes, that something was wrong but he was not quite sure what it was.