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Rooftoppers QUOTES

Rooftoppers QUOTES

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 " 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. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

3 " 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. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

4 " You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

5 " It is difficult to believe extraordinary things. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

6 " 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. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

7 " Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

8 " Only weak thinkers do not love the sky. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

9 " Governments can do both great and stupid things. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

10 " Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

11 " But those coins are wishes! You’re stealing other people’s wishes!”
The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. “If you have money to waste on wishes, you don’t need the wishes as badly as I need the money. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

12 " Quite suddenly Sophie couldn't bear it. She pelted up to her bedroom, tripping over the stairs. The tears in her eyes were making the world blur... She stamped and kicked...

It took her some minutes to realize that Charles was standing in the doorway... 'This calls for hot water... Get in the tub, Sophie, and do some splashing. You will be surprised at what a difference splashing can make. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

13 " Her armpits were prickling, and her face was growing sweaty. She hated lying. She wasn't sure if she was good at it; she suspended she was not. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

14 " I know these sorts of people. They're not men. They're mustaches with idiots attached. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

15 " But it's a child! You're a man!"

"Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

16 " But she said people should be able to dance to music, so she learned the church songs and played them double time "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

17 " Paris was darker than London: it was a city lit in blinks and flickers. And it was Fabergé egg beautiful, she thought. It was magic carpet stuff. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

18 " Amongst other things, that she thought you very beautiful. I told her a little about you. She said you had the face of a warrior "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

19 " I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers

20 " Books crowbar the world open for you. "

― Katherine Rundell , Rooftoppers