Helen Cresswell > Quotes

“Further communication with her husband seemed hopeless. Between them yawned the chasm that divides those who have consumed champagne before breakfast from those who have not.”
― Helen Cresswell, Bagthorpes Haunted: Being the Sixth Part of the Bagthorpe Saga

“I live inside my head," he told himself. "So does everyone in a way. So what goes on in there, must count. It must count a lot. I shall always live in my head, wherever I go or whatever I do for the whole of my life. So why shouldn't I be at home in there?”
― Helen Cresswell, The Winter of the Birds