Quotes from Maggot Moon

“You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Doubt is a great worm in a crispy, red apple.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Colecciono palabras: son golosinas en la boca del sonido.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Tú me diste botas espaciales para que pudiera caminar por otros planetas. Sin ti me siento perdido. No sé si tirar a la derecha o la izquierda. No veo el mañana, sólo kilómetros y kilómetros de ayeres. Ahora que te he encontrado, ya no me importa lo que ocurra. Por eso he venido hasta aquí. Por ti. Porque te quiero.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“He says nothing but I know he is listening. Words are the only medicine I have.
‘You make sense of a world that is senseless. You gave me space boots so that I could walk on other planets. Without you, I’m lost. There’s no left, no right. No tomorrow, only miles of yesterdays. It doesn’t matter what happens now because I’ve found you. That’s why I’m here. Because of you. You who I love. My best friend. My brother.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why?”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Creo que lo mejor que tenemos en la vida es la imaginación y tú de eso tienes a montones.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Por un lado están los que piensan linealmente, y por otro lado estás tú, que eres como un golpe de brisa en el parque de la imaginación”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Stay calm. Don't go getting moon mad. Moon sad.
Moon morons.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“¿Por qué el ser humano es tan cruel,joder?
¿Por qué?”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“¿Qué ocurriría si nos quedáramos aquí quietos sin movernos, sin hacer nada? ¿Acaso el tiempo se olvidaría de nosotros, pasaría de largo? Que bajen el telón. Que salgan los créditos. Fin.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“No se le permitió a nadie perderse el parestésico paréntesis de aquel histórico día en que los despiadados seres puros de la raza inhumana enviaban un hombre a la luna.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“El planeta Juniper lo localicé yo solo. Lo encontré en mi cabeza.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Un médico sin medicinas es como un pianista sin piano.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Ya no soñaba despierto. Había demasiada realidad alrededor.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“I’m wondering what if. What if the football hadn’t gone over the wall. What if Hector had never gone looking for it. What if he hadn’t kept the dark secret to himself. What if . . . Then I suppose I would be telling myself another story. You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Puse cara de no entender nada. Si eres inteligente, si sabes más de lo que debes, destacas como un cielo verde sobre un campo azul, y, como es bien sabido, la Presidenta de la Patria opina que los artistas que pintan ese tipo de paisajes deberían ser esterilizados.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Well, you could have knocked me sideways with a feather.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“That summer, in the wilderness of crumbling bricks and mortar, white roses had appeared in those derelict suburbs. Gramps said that if man was mad enough to destroy itself, at least the rats and cockroaches would have front-row seats, be able to enjoy the sight of Mother Nature reclaiming the earth. Outside”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“No matter how bad things looked, Gramps had always seemed a giant to me. He wasn’t made up of any monstrous parts.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“You make sense of a world that is senseless. You gave me space boots so that I could walk on other planets. Without you, I’m lost. There’s no left, no right. No tomorrow, only miles of yesterdays. It doesn’t matter what happens now because I’ve found you. That’s why I’m here. Because of you. You who I love. My best friend. My brother.” Hector”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Gramps had the radio on, tuned to the only station that the authorities allowed us mere lava mites to listen to. Dripple for the workers of the Motherland. They sang it loud, they sang it clear:    “And once those feet did tread upon silver sand    And footprints deep marked out new moons of Motherland    Which all salute with upraised hand.” I went upstairs and put on my school uniform. Every part of me dead. Limp. Dead.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“am driving us home to Mrs. Lush in her shiny kitchen with a checked tablecloth in a house where the grass looks as if it’s been Hoovered. You see, only in the land of Croca-Colas does the sun shine in Technicolor. Life lived at the end of the rainbow.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“Él era quien llevaba la coz cantante.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

“But that’s her problem, not mine. No, my problem is elephantine. How do you eat an elephant, sir? Bit by tiny bit.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon

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