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The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3) QUOTES

The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3) QUOTES

1 " In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends, "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

2 " I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

3 " Here in Corfu,’ said Theodore, his eyes twinkling with pride, ‘anything can happen. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

4 " Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it, so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child’s transfer and with the same tinge of unreality. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

5 " She lifted her hand again and waved. It seemed to me, in the gloom, that the flowers had moved closer to her, had crowded eagerly about her bed, as though waiting for her to tell them something. A ravaged old queen, lying in state, surrounded by her whispering court of flowers. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

6 " No one but a murderer would have thought of giving Gerry that albatross. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

7 " It was due to this attitude of pomposity that he set the villa on fire. Leslie "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

8 " when they had all forgathered in England for the first time since World War II, they should be treated to something approaching a blizzard. It did not bring out the best in them; it made them more touchy than usual, "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

9 " Lawrence, clad in a roll-top pullover of the type usually worn by fishermen (several sizes too large for him), was standing by the window sneezing wetly and regularly into a large scarlet handkerchief. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

10 " Ahead lay a chocolate-brown smudge of land, huddled in mist, with a frill of foam at its base. This was Corfu, and we strained our eyes to make out the exact shapes of the mountains, to discover valleys, peaks, ravines, and beaches, but it remained a silhouette. Then suddenly the sun lifted over the horizon, and the sky turned the smooth enamelled blue of a jay’s eye. The endless, meticulous curves of the sea flamed for an instant and then changed to a deep royal purple flecked with green. The mist lifted in quick, lithe ribbons, and before us lay the island, the mountains as though sleeping beneath a crumpled blanket of brown, the folds stained with the green of olive groves. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

11 " I would awake early, breakfast hurriedly under the tangerine trees already fragrant with the warmth of the early sun, "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

12 " you get forests of almond and walnut trees, casting shade as cool as a well, thick battalions of spear-like cypress and silver-trunked fig trees with leaves as large as a salver. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

13 " That August, when we arrived, the island lay breathless and sun-drugged in a smouldering, peacock-blue sea under a sky that had been faded to a pale powder-blue by the fierce rays of the sun. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

14 " This was carefully set for two with snowy-white serviettes "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

15 " Up in the hills, in the miniature forests of heather and broom, where the sun-warmed rocks were embossed with strange lichens "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

16 " The shallow sea in the bays was butterfly blue, and even above the sound of the ship’s engines we could hear, faintly ringing from the shore like a chorus of tiny voices, the shrill, triumphant cries of the cicadas. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

17 " and the handsome women and girls with velvet black eyes "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

18 " the whole thing guarded by a tall, thick hedge of fuchsias that rustled mysteriously with birds. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

19 " as round as the moon. "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

20 " As we left the road and made our way up the hillside through the olive groves sparkling with light and shade, coloured with a hundred wild flowers, I stopped to pick some anemones for Mother. While I gathered the wine-coloured flowers "

― Gerald Durrell , The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)