George Selden > Quotes

“I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish.”
― George Selden

“Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious,
and it must not be allowed to go to waste.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their faces. Eyes that looked worried grew soft and peaceful; tongues left off chattering; and ears full of the city's rustling were rested by the cricket's melody.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“Neatness was not one of the things he aimed at in life.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“Tucker the mouse said I learned the value of ecomonicness - which means savings.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“downtown. He held the matchbox up at the level of his chest so the cricket could see out. This was the first time Chester had been able to watch where he was going on the subway. The last time he had been buried under roast beef sandwiches. He hung out of the box, gazing up and down the car.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“Tucker the mouse said I learned the value of ecomonicness - which means savings”
― George Selden

“Harry had been down to Washington Square to hear an open-air concert of chamber music. How you could play chamber music outdoors Chester didn't understand—but it was New York and anything could happen.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“through the subway station every morning and evening. It made him sort of sad, to think that his grass would soon be gone. But today, at least, he had his garden and a puddle of sunlight to sit in as well. And the air was sweet and soft and clean, the way the air gets in the springtime—even in the Times Square subway station—and Tucker Mouse really did have a very bad case of spring fever. It was getting worse by the minute. He had decided to go back inside the drain pipe and take a nap before he fell asleep right there, out in the open, and got himself stepped on, when something caught his eye. It was a flutter of little wings behind the Bellinis’ newsstand. Tucker peered more closely. Then he called back into the drain pipe, “Harry, there’s a bird in the subway station.” A few feet within the wall the pipe opened out”
― George Selden, Tucker's Countryside

“Old Money Bags Mouse, he’s known as.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“Bellini”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“A three-cornered conversation began.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“his”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square

“If a leaf in a green forest far from New York had fallen at midnight through the darkness into a thicket, it might have sounded like that.”
― George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square