Peter Dickinson Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Peter Dickinson
Otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt. — Peter Dickinson
The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end. — Peter Dickinson
The ketch belonged to an angry millionaire, who hadn't been willing to lend it until he received a personal telephone call from the President of France. (His wife had put on her tiara to listen to the call on an extension.) — Peter Dickinson
Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business. — Peter Dickinson
They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will last until you are so old that the humped veins on the back of your hands show dark blue-purple through your wax-white skin. — Peter Dickinson
She left them before Bagwy Llydiart, in midsentence. Geoffery and Sally got the subject and verb, and the girl who opened the farm door to her got the object. — Peter Dickinson
When the weatherman spoke he did so in smooth, rolling clauses, full of long words such as schoolmasters use when they are teasing a favored pupil, but he told them very little about himself. His talk was like cotton candy, that huge sweet bauble that fills the eye but leaves little in your belly when you've eaten it. — Peter Dickinson