Katherine Rundell Quotes
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.
3084 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 time.
1975 Books crowbar the world open for you.
2898 You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.
2524 It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?
3470 I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.
4204 Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.
1927 But those coins are wishes! You’re stealing other people’s wishes!”
The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. “If you have money to waste on wishes, you don’t need the wishes as badly as I need the money.
3802 Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie - two words for the same thing.
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