Prose Quotes by Gerald Durrell

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

— Gerald Durrell

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

— Gerald Durrell

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

— Gerald Durrell

“It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I…

— Gerald Durrell

As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an…

— Gerald Durrell

Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the…

— Gerald Durrell

We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of…

— Gerald Durrell

“Lying spread-eagled in the silky water, gazing into the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly to keep afloat, I was looking at…

— Gerald Durrell

“Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.”

— Gerald Durrell

“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did the piping.…

— Gerald Durrell

“The noise of drinking was exhilarating. Champagne corks popped and the pale, chrysanthemum-coloured liquid, whispering gleefully with bubbles, hissed into the glasses; heavy red…

— Gerald Durrell

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

— Gerald Durrell