Top 26 Lesley Howarth Quotes

#1. Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason not to be happy.

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#2. Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.

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#3. Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do?

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#4. Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.

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#5. Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it.

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#6. But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them.

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#7. The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

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#8. You're special, not strange. You should be glad.

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#9. Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

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#10. I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.

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#11. The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?

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#12. He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen

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#13. Invisibility was a tricky thing to get right. It had to do with blocking the way people saw you -- with absorbing light instead of reflecting it.

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#14. Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. His life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better.

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#15. I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble.

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#16. That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have?

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#17. Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.

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#18. I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

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#19. Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

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#20. Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

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#21. It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?

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#22. Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.

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#23. Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

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#24. His knowingness made him cold.

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#25. I sort of felt -- frightened, you know?
Frightened of what?
Being alone.
Alone is scary. I know what you mean.
Plus, I'm scared of myself.

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#26. Nothing ever really goes away.

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