P. L. Travers

“Wind's in the east, there's a mist coming in, like something is brewin' and 'bout to begin. Can't put me finger on what lies in store, but I feel what's to happen all happened before.”

“She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the sisters and brother, were behind her. She had a new secret, a secret that belonged to her alone.”

“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”

“Practically perfect in every way.”

“Never explain anything.”

“That's a pie-crust promise. Easily made, easily broken.”

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

“Spit-spot.”

“More and more I have come to believe that we are all of us, wherever we may be, in this world, at this moment, the same person.”

“If you are looking for autobiographical facts, Mary Poppins is the story of my life.”

“I shall not be gone long. You will see me return on the wings of the wind.”

“Every story has a secret, a shy secret that is everywhere, and to find it you have to be very quiet and listen very hard.”