Top 38 Sally Gardner Quotes
#1. Few people can claim they are born into the right period of history. Most of us have to make do with the times we find ourselves in.
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#2. Well, you could have knocked me sideways with a feather.
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#3. What more can anyone take from me?" said my father, his head bent down. "Everywhere I go I carry my hell with me.
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#4. He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why?
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#5. Our story is over, though in its end lies its beginning.
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#6. I had never been interested in boys and had no notion that I ever would, seeing being in love and loving as a great tangle in which you could lose your head as well as your heart. Yet standing there that afternoon looking at the young man. I could well see how such knots in life were made.
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#7. All she had to protect herself against him was silence, the one skill in which she had become an expert.
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#8. There is nothing to fear except the power you give to your own demons.
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#9. There is more betwixt the day and the night than we can ever know.
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#10. If things were different, if there were no revolution, no war, no threads of light, if he were rich, would he go back to London with her and ask for her hand in marriage? He smiled, for the answer was simple. Yes, yes, he would.
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#11. Live you life, Sido, whatever happens. Live in the moment, don't live with regret.' He took his last kiss.
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#12. Many men spend their lives living in the wrong corner of their souls, mainly out of fear of what they might find on the other side.
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#13. In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.
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#14. He stroked Sido's cheek and bent down to kiss her, whispering what his heart had always known, what he had never said before to anyone. 'I love you, I always will.
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#15. What are you on?' said AJ. 'Leon's mum has died and you are determined to add to the total sum of misery by going out with the girlfriend of the nastiest piece of manhood that was ever assembled in the factory of life ...
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#16. My stepmother was no beauty. She was round and squat with a face not unlike a potato that had been scrubbed.
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#17. As if the words came not from her but from the breeze.
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#18. The self is me, the me is I, and that's all that's left.
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#19. My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you,
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#20. I sat at the very back of the class - the blackboard could have been in another country. The words were just circus horses dancing up and down. At least, they never stayed still long enough for me to work out what they were saying. The
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#21. No matter how bad things looked, Gramps had always seemed a giant to me. He wasn't made up of any monstrous parts.
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#22. Stay calm. Don't go getting moon mad. Moon sad.
Moon morons.
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#23. But that's her problem, not mine. No, my problem is elephantine. How do you eat an elephant, sir? Bit by tiny bit.
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#24. There are too many ghosts walking this earth. They weigh heavy on the living.
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#26. I collect words
they are sweets in the mouth of sound.
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#27. A secret told is mine to tell. Of truth and lies, the lesser hell.
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#28. It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.
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#30. You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
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#31. If my soul was filled with anything, then it was dust and the ashes of possibilities.
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#33. There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.
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#34. It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.
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#35. But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history.
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#36. I am told that sleep is a rehearsal for death. It is waking that kills us.
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#37. Am driving us home to Mrs. Lush in her shiny kitchen with a checked tablecloth in a house where the grass looks as if it's been Hoovered. You see, only in the land of Croca-Colas does the sun shine in Technicolor. Life lived at the end of the rainbow.
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#38. Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.
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