“They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will last until you are so old that the humped veins on the back of your hands show dark… — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The ketch belonged to an angry millionaire, who hadn't been willing to lend it until he received a personal telephone call from the President… — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“That was the whole trouble with police work. You come plunging in. a jagged Stone Age knife, to probe the delicate tissues of people's… — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“She left them before Bagwy Llydiart, in midsentence. Geoffery and Sally got the subject and verb, and the girl who opened the farm door… — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will last until… — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end.” — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“When the weatherman spoke he did so in smooth, rolling clauses, full of long words such as schoolmasters use when they are teasing a… — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“...otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt.” — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
