“Moving closer to the edge, I peered down. The water was glassy green, extraordinarily clear. I experienced the feeling I sometimes get when I'm on a bridge or a railway platform. Rationally, you know that you've no intention of stepping off the bridge or the platform - or this ice floe - but you're aware that you could, and that the only thing stopping you is your will.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“If you're warm enough when you set out, you're wearing too many clothes.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“I wondered what it must be like to be so handsome. Surely it would affect the behavior of everyone around you, always?”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“And yet I think I now understand the impulse which drives men to shoot bears. It isn't for the pelt or the meat or the sport - or not only those things. I think they need to do it. They need to kill that great Arctic totem to give them some sense of control over the wilderness - even if that is only an illusion.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“I’m twenty-eight years old and I hate my life. I never have the time or the energy to work out how to change it. On Sundays I trail round a museum to keep warm, or lose myself in a library book, or fiddle with the wireless. But Monday’s already looming. And always I’ve got this panicky feeling inside, because I know I’m getting nowhere, just keeping myself alive. Tacked”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end. I”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“Never been so intensely watched by a creature who would kill me if it got the chance. I stared at it, and I felt death staring back. A”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end.
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
Michelle Paver
Born place: in Malawi
Born date September 7, 1960
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“How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?"
"'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland.
"Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?"
Maddie laughed. "The Lost Boys give it away."
Jamie studied his hands. "Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us.”
― Elizabeth Wein, quote from Code Name Verity
“Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.”
― Alison Goodman, quote from Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she's in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Wake
“You came here with so many more followers, but you lost the ones you left with.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“The contents of my chamber pot are more able than Ser Harys.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Song of Ice and Fire
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