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Marcus Sedgwick QUOTES

1 " The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.
In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and
telephones, murder and assassination. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , Blood Red, Snow White

2 " Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , The Truth Is Dead

3 " If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be. "

― Marcus Sedgwick

4 " A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. "

― Marcus Sedgwick

5 " Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , Blood Red, Snow White

6 " One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , She Is Not Invisible

7 " Orwell's vision of our terrible future was that world-- the world in which books are banned or burned. Yet it is not the most terrifying world I can think of. I think instead of Huxley-- ...I think of his Brave New World. His vision was the more terrible, especially because now it appears to be rapidly coming true, whereas the world of 1984 did not. What's Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read one. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , The Monsters We Deserve

8 " Orwell's vision of our terrible future was that world - the world in which books are banned or burned. Yet it is not the most terrifying world I can think of. I think instead of Huxley [...] I think of his Brave New World. His vision was the more terrible, especially now because it appears to be rapidly coming true, whereas the world of 1984 did not. What is Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read one. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , The Monsters We Deserve

9 " ...people burn books, and that they ban books is, in a way, a good sign. It's a good sign because it means books have power. When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them... "

― Marcus Sedgwick , The Monsters We Deserve

10 " I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , The Foreshadowing

11 " You will never find it," his ghost says. "What?" "What you are looking for. You want to go back to the start. You want to go back to where you began. You want to find the happiness you once had. But you can never get there, because even if you somehow found it, you yourself would be different. You would have changed, from your journey alone, from the passing of time, if nothing else. You can never make it back to where you began, you can only ever climb another turn of the spiral stair. Forever. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , The Ghosts of Heaven

12 " If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection? "

― Marcus Sedgwick , Midwinterblood

13 " There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , Revolver

14 " There never was a story that was happy through and through. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , Blood Red, Snow White

15 " He wonders if a few moments of utter and total joy can be worth a lifetime of struggle.

Maybe, he thinks. Maybe, if they're the right moments. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , Midwinterblood

16 " People think I have so much faith in myself, but I have none. I have no faith in myself, or in what I can do, and yet people think I can do anything I want.
That's how I seem, but it's an illusion. It's an act, nothing more. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , She Is Not Invisible

17 " Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight.

He corrects himself.

Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his journalist’s brain make a correction, rubbing out a long-held belief, writing a new one in its place.

He did not believe in love at first sight. He thinks he might do so now. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , Midwinterblood

18 " I might have been normal but if I was I cannot remember that time. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , White Crow

19 " And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , The Foreshadowing

20 " How do you find a name?"
"In this case, on a shampoo bottle. It's one of the ingredients; Sodium Laureth Sulphate. He thought it was a beautiful word and sounded like a name."
"He's right."
"Mum didn't think so. He swears he told her at the time where it came from, and maybe he did, but she was too ill to remember. I was seven when she found out, and then she hit the roof. 'You named our daughter after a chemical!' That kind of thing."
"I still think it's a cool name," said Sam, and I could hear the smile in his voice. It was a soft voice, too. I liked it.
"And very beautiful," he added.
"Thank you," I said, feeling a little warm inside.
"And that's why I have such a boring name," said Benjamin.
"Oh, hey," said Sam. "That's a cool name, too."
"No, it's not," said Benjamin. "There are two Bens in my class. Mum said she was going to choose my name when I was born. Dad wasn't allowed. So I got a boring name. But that's why Stan's called Stan."
"Because you wanted him to have a boring name, too?"
"Stan's not a boring name. It's short for Stannous."
"Stannous?"
"Stannous Chloride," I said. "It's a chemical. It was on a tube of toothpaste."
Sam laughed.
"Mum hit the roof," said Benjamin, proudly. "

― Marcus Sedgwick , She Is Not Invisible