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I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it. — P.L. Travers

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world. — P.L. Travers

she wore so many brooches and necklaces and earrings that she jingled and jangled just like a brass band. — P.L. Travers

I hate being good.
-Mary Poppins — P.L. Travers

The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. — P.L. Travers

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate. — P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins," he cried, "you'll never leave us, will you? — P.L. Travers

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her. — P.L. Travers

There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other. — P.L. Travers

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment. — P.L. Travers

I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much! — P.L. Travers

This is your new nurse, Mary Poppins. — P.L. Travers

I never wrote my books especially for children. — P.L. Travers

More and more I've become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown. — P.L. Travers

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either. — P.L. Travers

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. — P.L. Travers

Child and serpent, star and stone - all one. — P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins is not a fairy-tale."
"She's even better!" said Alfred loyally. "She's a fairy-tale come true. — P.L. Travers

I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned. — P.L. Travers

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written. — P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . . — P.L. Travers

I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life. — P.L. Travers

Robertson Ay was sitting in the garden busily doing nothing. — P.L. Travers

Michael, you shall have some syrup of figs. — P.L. Travers

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own? — P.L. Travers

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. — P.L. Travers

We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions! — P.L. Travers

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you. — P.L. Travers

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself. — P.L. Travers

So it was settled, and that was how the Banks family came to live at Number Seventeen, with Mrs. Brill to cook for them, — P.L. Travers

You can't expect two stars to drop in the same field in one lifetime — P.L. Travers

She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself! — P.L. Travers

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree? — P.L. Travers

What is real and what is not? Can you tell me or I you? Perhaps we shall never know more than this - that to think a thing is to make it true. — P.L. Travers

A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular. — P.L. Travers

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. — P.L. Travers

Michael knew now what was happening to him. He knew he was going to be naughty. — P.L. Travers

Sir Christopher Wren's Cathedral — P.L. Travers

I'm the Waiter, you know! — P.L. Travers

Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."
The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time. — P.L. Travers

Next time you must stay for tea and we'll all sit together on a rock and sing a song to the moon — P.L. Travers

She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time. — P.L. Travers

He knew, the moment he opened his eyes, that something was wrong but he was not quite sure what it was. — P.L. Travers

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars? — P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else. — P.L. Travers

Well, au revoir, one and all. — P.L. Travers

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life. — P.L. Travers

Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock. — P.L. Travers

He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously. — P.L. Travers

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit. — P.L. Travers