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Peter Bunzl QUOTES

1 " You know, once,” Robert said, “I was working in the shop, doing some repairs on a music box, and it was all going wrong. Da took me aside and told me to think of it like life: ‘It looks complicated when you see all the separate pieces, but the purpose of the music box is to play joyful music. You just have to remember how to fit them together so it will. The same with life really. It’s just about the living of it. That’s all you have, and all you can do: live and be happy. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

2 " The Kraken was somewhat obsessed with posture. As for Lily, she barely gave it a second thought. In her opinion it was better to read books than balance them. That’s what they were designed for, after all. And if you wanted to wear something on your head there was a perfectly good item designed for that too: it was called a hat. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

3 " No one conquers fear easily, Robert. It takes a brave heart to win great battles. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

4 " The soul’s a matter of the heart, Robert, and the heart’s a mystery even the greatest scientists don’t understand. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

5 " I know sometimes life can be painful, my tiger. But, remember, if you can’t change what’s happened today, you must bide your time, until you’re strong enough to fight tomorrow. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

6 " If you didn't divide it up, carve things into categories, it was all one in the same anyway - waves and oceans, dawns and sunsets, noise and silence. Life was a single connected river that ran through mechanicals, people, animals, planets. Everything that ever was or would be, all mixed together in a soup of being; of shouting and jumping, moving and bumping. Echoes of the great creation. "

― Peter Bunzl , Moonlocket (The Cogheart Adventures, #2)

7 " Samir loves Joe’s face. He studies it every day in class: a face as old as his own but already, in eighteen years, the cliffs and hills and odd proportions of its geography have been shaped by life’s weather. Samir likes to observe the ever-watchful green eyes, hidden in their shadowy alcoves over the at nose and cheekbones, and the heavy brow that scrunches up with Joe’s moods – all those sculptural planes could have been carved by Easter Islanders. en there’s the pout of his lips, the pucker of their concentration or the twist of their anger. But most of all, Samir examines the thoughts as they cross the wide-open landscape of the face. Tries hard to read their cloud shapes from the merest shadow. "

― Peter Bunzl , Tales from the Blue Room: An Anthology of New Short Fiction

8 " Ryan had read half his book, listened to all his music, eaten two packets of biscuits and an apple, played seventy-two games of Donkey Kong, completing all the levels, and counted every Italian sports car they’d passed in the last hundred miles. Twenty-four hours of groggy sticky travel, twenty-four hours stuck in this overheated tin can on wheels, and he finally knew what it was like to be utterly and unendingly bored. He propped an elbow on the car window frame and stuck his arm out of the opening. Combing his hand through the slipstream, he let the cool air tickle his fingers as he watched the countryside stream past. "

― Peter Bunzl , Tales from the Blue Room: An Anthology of New Short Fiction

9 " If Spring-Heeled Jack, or Varney the Vampyre, or the air-pirates, or any of the other blackguards who roamed England, ever caught any of those girls in a dark alley they'd be dead for sure. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

10 " He believes one should read a lot wider than deportment manuals if one plans to get an exceptional education. Don't you agree""
The Kraken weighed the magazine in her hand. "No," she said. "I don't. Besides, this sort of bunkum is not approved of by the academy. It has no educational value."
"It teaches piracy and air combat. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

11 " The trouble was, Lily reflected, as she sneaked up the last set of stairs to the girls' dormitory, she didn't want the life of a well-bred Victorian young lady, she wanted the life of an air-pirate. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

12 " In her short life Lily Hartman had come back from the dead not once, but twice. Neither time had been particularly pleasant. The first she didn’t like
to recall; the second she wished every day she could forget. "

― Peter Bunzl , Moonlocket (The Cogheart Adventures, #2)

13 " There’s no point living in fear of what might be when it prevents you enjoying the freedom of what is. "

― Peter Bunzl , Moonlocket (The Cogheart Adventures, #2)

14 " Feelings and intuition, love and compassion, those are the things make a soul, not blood and bones or machine parts. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

15 " Jack stepped through the crack into the night. Outside the yard was quiet and thick dark clouds hid the moon from view. "

― Peter Bunzl , Moonlocket (The Cogheart Adventures, #2)

16 " No one conquers fear easily, Robert "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

17 " But, I suppose without those evils there'd be no chance for us to do good, and doing good is what matters. Though it can be very frightening... "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

18 " Lily wondered if she should tell him about the present, but then decided against it. “Nothing in particular,” she said. Captain Springer tutted and returned to his task. Lily picked up the hatbox and went back inside, shutting the door behind "

― Peter Bunzl , Skycircus (The Cogheart Adventures, #3)

19 " If she could just get Papa to put Jack Door's book on lock-picking on the syllabus, she felt sure her new education would soon be complete. "

― Peter Bunzl , Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

20 " If you didn’t divide it up, carve things into categories, it was all one and the same anyway – waves and oceans, dawns and sunsets, noise and silence. Life was a single connected river that ran through mechanicals, people, animals, planets. Everything that ever was or would be, all mixed together in a soup of being; of shouting and jumping, moving and bumping. Echoes of the great creation, the let-there-be-light – she was that and more. "

― Peter Bunzl , Moonlocket (The Cogheart Adventures, #2)