# Quote — Eleanor Farjeon, Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

> No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

- Author: [Eleanor Farjeon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon.md)
- Book: [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/martin-pippin-in-the-apple-orchard.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon#Martin_Pippin_in_the_Apple_Orchard_(1922)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/martin-pippin-in-the-apple-orchard/no-love-story-has

## More from this book

> I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/martin-pippin-in-the-apple-orchard/i-will-fight.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md)

> Romance gathers round an old story like lichen on an old branch. And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now — some say a year old, some say even two. How can the children be expected to remember?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/martin-pippin-in-the-apple-orchard/romance-gathers-round.md)

Topics: [literature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature.md)

> Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/martin-pippin-in-the-apple-orchard/of-what-use.md)

Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md)