The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily,… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it,… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“As he hurried along, eagerly anticipating the moment when he would be at home again among the things he knew and liked,… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived;… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court,… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Weasels--and stoats--and foxes--and so on. They're all right in a way--I'm very good friends with them--pass the time of day when we… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“We were always ready for tea at any time, and especially when combined with beasts.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!’ ‘Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“In silence they landed, and pushed through the blossom and scented herbage and undergrowth that led up to the level ground, till they stood… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image