Quotes from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“He will be sure to give us rest soon.”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“I wish we had not followed him! Let us run away.”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“The tears came into Christiana’s eyes,”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“The little pilgrims lay down side by side and slept quietly until the morning.”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“always meant to run away someday.”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“What is he collecting them for?”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“It is very wrong of you, Christiana, to think of leaving them.”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“It is no use wasting our time,”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“You must keep them as tidy as you can,”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“You know what I mean,” answered”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“the children helped each other as much as they could.”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“His mother was standing before him,”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“Christian knew her in a moment,”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“I don’t know which is right!”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“This is not the way to the City!”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“I am glad I have caught up with you,”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“the children supposed that he was a pilgrim.”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

“James and Joseph held each other by the hand”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

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“Oh," he said again and picked up two petals of cherry blossom which he folded together like a sandwich and ate slowly. "Supposing," he said, staring past her at the wall of the house, "you saw a little man, about as tall as a pencil, with a blue patch in his trousers, halfway up a window curtain, carrying a doll's tea cup-would you say it was a fairy?"
"No," said Arrietty, "I'd say it was my father."
"Oh," said the boy, thinking this out, "does your father have a blue patch on his trousers?"
"Not on his best trousers. He does on his borrowing ones."
'Oh," said the boy again. He seemed to find it a safe sound, as lawyers do. "Are there many people like you?"
"No," said Arrietty. "None. We're all different."
"I mean as small as you?"
Arrietty laughed. "Oh, don't be silly!" she said. "Surely you don't think there are many people in the world your size?"
"There are more my size than yours," he retorted.
"Honestly-" began Arrietty helplessly and laughed again. "Do you really think-I mean, whatever sort of a world would it be? Those great chairs . . . I've seen them. Fancy if you had to make chairs that size for everyone? And the stuff for their clothes . . . miles and miles of it . . . tents of it ... and the sewing! And their great houses, reaching up so you can hardly see the ceilings . . . their great beds ... the food they eat ... great, smoking mountains of it, huge bogs of stew and soup and stuff."
"Don't you eat soup?" asked the boy.
"Of course we do," laughed Arrietty. "My father had an uncle who had a little boat which he rowed round in the stock-pot picking up flotsam and jetsam. He did bottom-fishing too for bits of marrow until the cook got suspicious through finding bent pins in the soup. Once he was nearly shipwrecked on a chunk of submerged shinbone. He lost his oars and the boat sprang a leak but he flung a line over the pot handle and pulled himself alongside the rim. But all that stock-fathoms of it! And the size of the stockpot! I mean, there wouldn't be enough stuff in the world to go round after a bit! That's why my father says it's a good thing they're dying out . . . just a few, my father says, that's all we need-to keep us. Otherwise, he says, the whole thing gets"-Arrietty hesitated, trying to remember the word-"exaggerated, he says-"
"What do you mean," asked the boy, " 'to keep us'?”
― Mary Norton, quote from The Borrowers

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