Molly Butler

“It was a night when you might expect to stray into a dance of mermaids.”
― LM Montgomery

“They never sat up all night with Trouble, Peter Piper used to say.

And I told him they were quite right. If you make a fuss over trouble and put it to bed and nurse it and give it beef tea and gruel, you can never get rid of it”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Racketty-Packetty House

“Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals.”
― Gerald Durrell