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1 " For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister "
― Helen Dunmore , The Crossing of Ingo
2 " Childhood is a slum and they love it. "
― Helen Dunmore , Your Blue Eyed Boy
3 " It's so respectable you could put it in a Christmas circular letter. "
― Helen Dunmore
4 " It's not evil that separates Earth and Ingo; it's difference. But there are plenty who want to make evil out of difference. "
― Helen Dunmore , The Deep
5 " I've known for a long time about dolphins getting caught in nets and drowning there. But knowing is not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. I feel heavy, sad and responsible. "
6 " That's what people do in Holland. They build dykes and ditches. They don't drown. They're brilliant engineers.''So I've heard,' says Faro thoughtfully. 'They're very obstinate, those people in Holland. "
― Helen Dunmore , The Tide Knot
7 " The see lifts me again, and carries me away with it. "
8 " Be brave. Each time you are brave, it grows easier. "
9 " We know everything about the Earth now, except how to keep her alive. "
10 " You will come back to us?''Yes, I will come back. I belong to Ingo now. "
11 " Everyone knows they're only stories. Mermaids aren't real: they're a legend. As long as humans believe that, Ingo is safe. "
― Helen Dunmore , Stormswept
12 " Chimpanzees look nearly human. They share most of their DNA with us. But we do research on them. We experiment on them and because they're not quite human, that's all right. "
13 " You humans are the ones who want more. You want the whole world to bow to human desires. "
14 " I know I love her, but I can't find the feeling. "
15 " When you're out on the bare ocean and you see a whale breach and blow, you've seen glory. "
16 " I wish I was away in IngoFar across the briny seaSailing over deepest watersWhere neither care nor worry trouble me. "
― Helen Dunmore , Ingo
17 " In a world without air all you breathe is adventure! "
18 " The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. "
19 " They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear what your existence has been? "
― Helen Dunmore , The Siege (The Siege, #1)
20 " We are creatures of story. "
