The Christmas Pig Quotes
"Dur Pig was a small toy pig made of the same material as a soft towel. His squishy trotters were exactly the right size to wipe away a tear."
"The answer was private, between Jack and DP. Jack knew DP liked cosy spaces where he could snuggle up and sleep."
"Jack didn’t have to pretend in the dark with DP."
"The very worst that ever happened to DP was when Jack was four, and lost him at the beach... Jack pulled DP out, sobbing with happiness."
"Jack knew DP liked doing exactly the same things he did: crawling under bushes and into hidey-holes."
"Once inside, Jack ran up to his bedroom and began to throw things. He took all the toys he could reach from their shelves and threw them across the room."
"The Christmas Pig... 'If you love DP enough to risk your life, then I’m ready to take you with me into the Land of the Lost, and we’ll see whether we can bring him home again.'"
"‘I do love him enough,’ said Jack at once. ‘I love him enough for anything.’"
"He could even smell DP’s slightly grubby home-like whiff."
"‘That’s enough, young man!’ roared Grandpa, appearing in the doorway behind Gran. ‘You just calm down, right now!’"
"It was very scary to think you could shrink like this, just by saying a few words."
"Being used and absorbing human feelings. That’s what wakes Things up."
"Nobody’s heart broke when we disappeared. We’re easy to replace. But that doesn’t make us worthless, no, Sirree!"
"Things that are lost inside Things that are lost must stay lost in the Things that were lost."
"We cheap, old Things know how it is. Nobody’s heart broke when we disappeared."
"If you’d rather be Surplus, it could be arranged!"
"Alivening is what changes us from fabric and beans and fluff, or metal and wood and plastic, into... something more."
"Lost is lost and found is found, don’t matter when any of it ’appens."
"It’s not your cost that matters in the kingdom of the Lost, but whether you once touched a human heart, and how it hurt them when you had to part."
"Nor’ nor’ west is all very well, but only the wise go sideways."
"The likes of me don’t expect much, but you’re different."
"I lay in the flowerbed for weeks. It rained. I was so cold, so wet, but I had no choice but to lie in the mud and wait."
"Secrets are fun. Secrets are my favorite thing."
"No boy has done this for a toy ever, in the history of the world."
"Kids are strange. Imagine that girl liking a muddy lump what had lain in a flowerbed for ages!"
"Clever little tricks that humans can do but which, through age or injury, poor memory or lack of practice, they lose."
"I know she doesn’t seem very friendly, but she must be good, if Happiness sent her."
"I still don’t like it. It smells like a trap to me."
"You heard what Poem said! We’ve got to succeed before Christmas Day or I’ll be trapped and I’ll never be able to take DP home!"
"We could have recovered from that setback and climbed together to even greater heights! But no... she lost me, the weak-willed fool!"
"Marvellous to meet you! What jolly good Things you are! I feel as though I’ve known you forever! Let’s be best friends!"
"Everything’s all right again! Holly threw you and I was so angry and I knew you were alone on the motorway and I couldn’t stand it and I yelled and smashed up my room—"
"I know, Jack, I know. But it’s all right, now. You’ve found me!"
"Losing is part of living. But some of us live even though we’re lost. That’s what love does."
"Good luck, Jack, and give my brother my love! Thank him for what he tried to do! Tell him he’s the best and bravest pig there ever was!"
"But I don’t really care about the bike, as long as I get the Christmas Pig back."
"He’s a pig who greatly enjoys bike rides, though he doesn’t know it yet, being so new."
"Nobody knows for sure. Some say he was created by people, that there is so much greed and cruelty Up There that some of it oozed down here."
"His thoughts were full of CP, who’d surely have reached the Wastes of the Unlamented by now."
"It was all his fault. He ought to have got there sooner."
"CP’s my pig and if he’s still Alivened, I’m taking him home!"
"I have nothing left to lose, which makes a Thing brave."
"We don’t love all Things, only very special ones."
"Feeling nothing would be better than what I feel now."
"They’ll be made new, Up There, and live again!"
"People can’t have them! They’re mine, they belong to me—"
"He had lovely yellow curls, fine sweeping moustaches, and looked magnificent."
"Unless a grown man’s eyes filled with tears of pleasure as he bit into a Chouxville pastry, it was deemed a failure."
"You could get tipsy simply walking its streets."
"The only memorable thing that had ever come out of the Marshlands was the legend of the Ickabog."