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Joan Aiken quotes: But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

But this is your home'
'Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

Joan Aiken quotes: Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.
("Hair")

Joan Aiken quotes: Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

Joan Aiken quotes: Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

Joan Aiken quotes: The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

Joan Aiken quotes: The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured

The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured

Joan Aiken quotes: As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Joan Aiken quotes: No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.

No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.

Joan Aiken quotes: Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.

Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.

Joan Aiken quotes: Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.