Marcus Sedgwick Quotes

#1. There never was a story that was happy through and through.

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#2. And none of you stand so tall, a pink moon gonna get you all.

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#3. 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.

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#4. A gun is not a weapon," Einar once said to Sig. "It's and answer...

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#5. That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind. Then,

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#6. 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.

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#7. He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it.

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#8. It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

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#9. One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

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#10. I am scared almost all the time. But I never tell anyone. I can't afford to. I have to go on pretending I'm this confident person, because if I don't, if I'm quiet, I become invisible.

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#11. I might have been normal but if I was I cannot remember that time.

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#12. All he felt was that same feeling he'd always had, that he was looking for something, whose name he didn't even know, and yet now, in the dark of the night and with his father had gone to wherever his mother had gone before, with Anna sitting beside him, he suddenly knew its name. Home.

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#13. Cold didn't worry him unduly. Given that his normal body temperature was way below human levels, the dip in the river had been no more than refreshing, certainly not deadly.

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#14. 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.

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#15. One of the advantages of having a binary vascular system was that he could always pump his blood faster than normal if he chose to, raising his body temperature at will.

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#16. Slowly he had learned that there is a world beneath the visible one, and that people, some people at least, have a different life, that they carry inside them.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Love, he decided, is not about how much someone else cares for you, it's about how much you care for someone else.

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#19. Love, sing, cry, and fight, but all the time, seek to know everything you can about the earth upon which you stand, till your time is done.

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#20. If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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?

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

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#24. To be remembered in the heart of a loved one is to live forever

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#25. They said something funny. They said, 'Even God leaves on the last boat from Nome.' What does that mean?

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#26. He'd watch the loading and unloading of boats; the building of houses, shacks, and huts; and above all, the people, each carrying a bundle of stories inside them.

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#27. Secondly, I continued my education in a more important way,
through the observation of everyone around me,
because nothing is more important to learn in life than
the interaction of a human being with another human being.

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#28. It is enough to know that not to know is enough.
It is enough not to know.

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#29. To see yourself on camera is not a natural thing, a thing no normal person is comfortable with; for it shows us as others see us, not as who we believe we really are.

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#30. You have life written all over you. Some people bear tragedy on their faces; loss, death, whatever it might be. But you have life.

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#31. If. The smallest word, which raises the biggest questions.

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#32. She risked her life to put your mind at rest,' Evgenia said. 'How great is love!

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#33. 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.

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#34. Even the dead tell stories.

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#35. If I can see the future, then what does that mean? It would be like knowing the end of a story right from the start, almost as if you were reading it backwards.
And who wants to know how their own story ends?

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#36. Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they had a script to life with all the answers on it? He felt he didn't even know the questions.

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#37. And that was how the young writer found love, just when he had stopped looking for it.

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