25 quotes found
“Stories can start revolutions.”
“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”
“Wolves are the witches of the animal world.”
“It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.”
“Governments can do both great and stupid things.”
“Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.”
“If music can shine, Sophie thought, this music shone... 'It's like eight thousand birds, Charles!'When the music closed, she clapped until the rest of the audience had stopped and until her hands w...”
“Perhaps, she thought, thats what love does. Its not there to make you feel special. Its to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood...”
“People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.”
“You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.”
“Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.”
“You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.”
“No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.”
“I do, Im afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”
“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same...”
“Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.”
“It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.”
“Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.”
“Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.”
“It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.”
