Jill Paton Walsh Quotes
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.
And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.