Katherine Rundell Quotes

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

Stories can start revolutions.

It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.

Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

Wolves are the witches of the animal world.

Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.

Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.

It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.