“But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it.He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world.-The Time Garden, Edward Eager”

“Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.”

“The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book.""Naturally," said John.”

“Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.”

“A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.”

“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”

“Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.”