Excerpts:
p 27 – “I don’t know of anything in the entire world more wonderful to look at than a nest with eggs in it. An egg, because it contains life, is the most perfect thing there is. It is beautiful and mysterious … an egg will someday be a living creature. A swan’s egg will open and out will come a little swan”
p 36 – “Welcome to the world that contains this lonely pond, this splendid marsh, unspoiled and wild!”
p 38 – (my daughter Audrey laughed and laughed at this) “Ko-hoh!” said the cob. “Hello!” said Sam, who hadn’t expected anything like this and hardly dared breath … (The first, second, third and fourth, cygnets looked at Sam and said “Beep!”) The fifth cygnet was different. He opened his mouth but didn’t say a thing. He made an effort to say beep, but no sound came. So instead,he stuck his little neck out , took hold of one of Sam’s shoelaces, and gave it a pull. He tugged at the lace for a moment. It came untied. Then he let it go. It was like a greeting. Sam grinned.
p 53 – “But these pleasures and pastimes, these adventures, these games and frolics, these beloved sights and sounds must come to an end. All things come to an end. It is time for us to go.”
p 104 – “Louis realized that there were advantages to traveling light and not having too many possessions clinging to you.”
p 206 – “Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.”
p 244 – “Serena was enchanted. They were in love. It was spring … The sun shone down, strong and steady. Ice was melting; patches of open water appeared on the pod. Louis and Serena felt the changing world, and they stirred with new life and rapture and hope. There was a smell in the air, a smell of earth waking after its long winter. The trees were putting out tiny green buds, the buds were swelling. A better, easier time was at hand.”
also pages 196 (“rapture of the deep”), 200,
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