“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.”
― Michelle Magorian, quote from Good Night, Mr. Tom
“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”
― Michelle Magorian, quote from Good Night, Mr. Tom
“Miss Thorne said no more. Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man. Tom”
― Michelle Magorian, quote from Good Night, Mr. Tom
“I expect you think I’m a bit forward,’ remarked Zach. ‘Wot?”
― Michelle Magorian, quote from Good Night, Mr. Tom
Michelle Magorian
Born place: in Portsmouth, The United Kingdom
Born date November 6, 1947
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“We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.”
― Martin Luther, quote from The Bondage of the Will
“Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons?”
― Mark Twain, quote from The Innocents Abroad
“The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.”
― Iain Pears, quote from The Dream of Scipio
“There are meaningful deaths. And there are absurd and utterly meaningless deaths. Unfortunately, you don't get to choose which one you get.”
― Teresa Medeiros, quote from Goodnight Tweetheart
“Mr Whitworth’s nose was a different shape”
― Winston Graham, quote from The Angry Tide
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