Emma Griffiths

“Sometimes he would doze, and then, in his half-dreaming, he became two persons, and one of him would not go to sleep but selfishly insisted on keeping the other awake with a little muttering monologue on whipped cream and shrimp sauce and rum butter and real mayonnaise and all the other rich variety of his diet nowadays.”
― Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

“Its thick stone walls were strong, warm and lively. It was furnished with comfortable polished old-fashioned things as though living in castles was quite ordinary.”
― Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe Collection

“But there are bars across the bottom of the window!’ he burst out. ‘This is a nursery! I’m not a baby!”
― Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

“What he really wanted was someone of his own. Someone to complete him. He wanted to belong to someone. To someone who could accept his differences and embrace him with them. He wanted unconditional love. More to the point, he wanted Terri’s unconditional love.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark and Hungry