Philippa Pearce Quotes

• Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

  Philippa Pearce

  Memories, Our Memories, Stills

  Philippa Pearce (2015). “Tom's Midnight Garden”, p.159, Oxford University Press - Children

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• The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for his child-characters in reverse - makes the connection between their present childhood and their future maturity. That their maturity is never visibly achieved makes no difference; the promise of it is there.

  Philippa Pearce

  Children, Character, Past

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• a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

  Philippa Pearce

  Strong, Children, Childhood

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