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21 " You should try never to be sure of things. "
― Chris Priestley , Tales of Terror from the Black Ship (Tales of Terror, #2)
22 " Age has more to do with experience than the number of years you may have walked the earth. "
23 " There are no fearless men in a battle. Only a liar would say different. "
24 " There are many kinds of bravery. It takes as much courage to bring a child into the world as it does to cross swords or sail into the teeth of a storm - more, maybe. "
25 " If ghosts exist, why are there not more? We should be tripping over them. If you can trip over a ghost. "
― Chris Priestley
26 " I'm fond of my Tom Marlowe adventure books. I'd happily have written a few more. Maybe when Hollywood discovers them... "
― Chris Priestley , Death and the Arrow: A Gripping Tale of Murder and Revenge (Tom Marlowe Adventures, #1)
27 " The sea is a world no one truly knows...It is constantly changing, constantly moving. It is a living thing, never ageing, but never the same. "
28 " I don't want to be rich. I'm not interested in money. Well, not money for the sake of it. I just want more life than Mother and Father want. Don't you ever want more? - Frank "
29 " Why is it childish to want something better? asked Frank sulkily. It's like pretending to be content is the same as actually being content. I'm not going to pre tent. - Frank "
― Chris Priestley , Anything That Isn't This
30 " What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope. "
31 " The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own. "
32 " Sometimes the rational is no defense against the irrational. "
― Chris Priestley , Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth (Tales of Terror, #3)
33 " He seemed to spend half his time straddled between sleeping and waking these days. He wasn't entirely sure which was which, or which truth would dissapoint him most: to think this dismal dream was the best his imagination could come up with, or that this soulless puppet show was the real world. "
34 " I know I am probably foolish, but I rather hope that there are such wonders in the world. I think the world needs wonders.’ She blushed and giggled. ‘Even awful ones. "
35 " And where should mankind be without trees? "
― Chris Priestley , Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror (Tales of Terror, #1)
36 " They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care. "
― Chris Priestley , The Last of the Spirits
37 " Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?''What harm is there?' said the giant. "
38 " I went to sea to forget her, but the sea is no place to forget. A man has so much to remember. "