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1 " I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with. "
― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers
2 " People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard. "
― Katherine Rundell , The Wolf Wilder
3 " No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening. "
4 " 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. "
5 " 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. "
6 " You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure. "
7 " Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved. "
― Katherine Rundell
8 " You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit. "
9 " It is difficult to believe extraordinary things. "
10 " 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. "
11 " Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean. "
12 " Only weak thinkers do not love the sky. "
13 " Governments can do both great and stupid things. "
14 " Stories can start revolutions. "
15 " It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end. "
16 " Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense. "
17 " Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings. "
18 " Wolves are the witches of the animal world. "
19 " Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily. "
20 " It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist. "
