Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

- Ruth Park

"You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than…

- Ruth Park

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the …

- Ruth Park

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and…

- Ruth Park

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

- Ruth Park