Best 7 quotes of Jill Paton Walsh on MyQuotes

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too.

And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.

Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection." "It does not require dissimulation, my lord," said Bunter. "Thank you," said Peter.

It’s just that we wear rose-coloured spectacles when we return here [to Oxford] – we are dazzled by the foolish idealism of our youthful years.