“I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Books crowbar the world open for you.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“I know these sorts of people. They're not men. They're mustaches with idiots attached.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“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.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“But it's a child! You're a man!"
"Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set of stars and maps.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“The baby was almost certainly one year old. They knew this because of the red rosette pinned to her front, which read, 1!
"Or rather," said Charles Maxim, "the child is either one year old or she has come first in a competition. I believe babies are rarely keen participants in competitive sport. Shall we therefore assume it is the former?”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“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.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“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.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should be.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“You look as though you own a minimum of one pony.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Sophie and Charles did not live neatly, but neatness, Sophie thought, was not necessary for happiness.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Governments can do both great and stupid things.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Books crow-bar the world open for you.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“You shouldn't say what you don't mean”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“he had kindness where other people had lungs,”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Why didn’t she keep looking?” “My darling, because she is an adult.” Sophie ducked behind her hair. Her face was hot and tight and angry. “That’s not a reason.” “It is, my love. Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“An Englishman without an umbrella is less than half a man,” he said. Matteo”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“The dark-haired girl had the face of someone who had seen a lot, and wouldn’t mind punching most of it.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“If music can shine, Sophie thought, this music shone... 'It's like eight thousand birds, Charles!'
When the music closed, she clapped until the rest of the audience had stopped and until her hands were hot and blotched with red... There was something in the music that felt familiar to Sophie. 'It feels,' she said to Charles, 'like home.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
“Quite suddenly Sophie couldn't bear it. She pelted up to her bedroom, tripping over the stairs. The tears in her eyes were making the world blur... She stamped and kicked...
It took her some minutes to realize that Charles was standing in the doorway... 'This calls for hot water... Get in the tub, Sophie, and do some splashing. You will be surprised at what a difference splashing can make.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from Rooftoppers
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“He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue . . .” ~ Al Capone”
― J.J. McAvoy, quote from Ruthless People
“He was one of those men ... who know in their hearts that for all their edgy, belligerent hardness they are just unhappy kids, emotional retards.”
― Iain Banks, quote from Espedair Street
“My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die.”
― Peter Carey, quote from Illywhacker
“The war at Troy seemed to grow in song, poetry, and story all the while. As it faded from living memory, it grew larger and larger. Men claimed descent from one or the other of the heroes, or, failing that, anyone who had fought in the war, which now assumed the stature of a clash between the gods and the titans.”
― Margaret George, quote from Helen of Troy
“Love hurt. Honesty made it hurt worse, and I could hardly stand it.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Endless Summer
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