Quotes by : Penelope Lively

Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations,....

I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do....

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons.....

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless....

The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view....

So now we are young still but a better sort of young.

The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.....

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain....