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41 " Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly. "
― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers
42 " Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless "
― Katherine Rundell
43 " 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? "
44 " Humans, on the whole, Feo could take or leave; there was only one person she loved properly, with the sort of fierce pride that gets people into trouble, or prison, or history books. "
― Katherine Rundell , The Wolf Wilder
45 " 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. "
46 " Children’s novels...spoke and still speak of hope. They say: look, this is what bravery looks like. This is what generosity looks like. They tell me, through the medium of wizards and lions and talking spiders, that this world we live in is a world of people who tell jokes and work and endure. Children’s books say: the world is huge. They say: hope counts for something. They say: bravery will matter, wit will matter, empathy will matter, love will matter. These things may or may not be true. I do not know. I hope they are. "
― Katherine Rundell , Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
47 " It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet. "
48 " Sophie and Charles did not live neatly, but neatness, Sophie thought, was not necessary for happiness. "
49 " If hope is a thing with feathers, then libraries are wings. "
50 " You look as though you own a minimum of one pony. "
51 " If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt. "
52 " Feo shook her head; she couldn't speak. The moments in which the world turns suddenly kind can feel like a punctured lung. She stood in the marble hall and cried until tears flooded down her nose and chin and dropped on to the heads of the two bloodstained wolves at her feet. "
53 " Children's books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place. "
54 " Feo wished she could explain - that the beauty of the world is itself a kind of company, and they lived in one of the most beautiful spots in the world. 'You can make the snow a kind of friend, if you know how. "
55 " Wolves, like children, are not meant to lead calm lives. "
56 " You shouldn't say what you don't mean "
57 " Books crow-bar the world open for you. "
58 " But make sure the risks you take aren’t taken to impress someone else. "
― Katherine Rundell , The Explorer
59 " Racism can't be cured by black excellence when it's caused by white ignorance. "
― Katherine Rundell , The Good Thieves
60 " It is difficult to sleep when you are besieged by hope. "