Deborah Ellis Quotes

#1. I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

Malala Yousafzai

#2. The Stalker by Gail Anderson-Dargatz In From the Cold by Deborah Ellis Shipwreck by Maureen Jennings The Picture of Nobody by Rabindranath Maharaj The Hangman by Louise Penny Easy Money by Gail Vaz-Oxlade 2011

Louise Penny

#3. Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.

Deborah Ellis

#4. What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

Elizabeth Smart

#5. You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

Deborah Ellis

#6. We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.

Deborah Ellis

#7. Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

Cal Hubbard

#8. There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.

Deborah Ellis

#9. Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Pope John Paul II

#10. In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.

Deborah Ellis

#11. I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good ... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.

Deborah Ellis

#12. The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

Henry Fielding

#13. I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.

Bill Rancic

#14. As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

Deborah Ellis

#15. You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself.

Jeffrey Fry

#16. Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#17. She's beautiful - broken and battered, still the most beautiful woman in the world to me - the only woman in the world for me.

Elizabeth Finn

#18. Behind the cross is the devil.

Miguel De Cervantes

#19. For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

William Blake

#20. While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.

Deborah Ellis

#21. I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

Deborah Ellis

#22. Even before you've gone anywhere, you feel like you've gone somewhere

Deborah Ellis

#23. If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

Deborah Ellis

#24. When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

Deborah Ellis

#25. She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear.
But she will keep on walking.
She will follow the moon.

Deborah Ellis

#26. but there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take it's place.

Deborah Ellis