Ashley

“Dreams are private, she said. And she is right. A dream is a story that no one else will get to hear or read.”
― Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

“Pip is an orphan who is given the chance to create his own self and destiny. Pip's experience also reminds us of the emigrant's experience. Each leaves behind the place he grew up in. Each strikes out on his own. Each is free to create himself anew. Each is also free to make mistakes...”
― Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

“Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars.”
― Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

“The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend.”
― Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip