Marcus Sedgwick Quotes

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.

There never was a story that was happy through and through.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.