"The Borrowers Afield" Quotes
The Borrowers venture into the great outdoors and face new challenges in their quest for survival and friendship.
fantasy | 224 pages | Published in 1955
Quotes
Everything was big and strange and frightening; and they were very small indeed.
The world was a great wilderness, full of woods and fields and strange things to explore.
They had come into a world of giants, where the simplest things were huge and complicated.
The Borrowers had always been most comfortable in the dark.
They knew that human beings were dangerous, and that to be seen meant danger.
It was a wonderful world, full of strange and interesting things.
They were very small, and it was a very big world.
Sometimes the Borrowers hear things that human beings never hear.
They had always been afraid of being seen, and they had seen enough of the dangers of the world to know that there were things to be afraid of.
They were on the move again, journeying through a world that was always strange and always new.
