7 Quotes by Alex Shearer

Was there? Was it true? Or was it just grown-ups making you scared with their own fears?

It was in their eyes. They seemed like people who had travelled in space and who had looked upon the immensity of the universe; eternity had moved into them, and taken up residence inside.

Ha! I like the world, kid. I like its sense of humour.I like the way it gets its own back on the know-it-alls and the stuck-ups and the well-meaners.

I tell you, kid,” Deet said, “one day you’ll grow up and then you won’t be worth anything.

Time can do all sorts of things. It’s almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children, seeds into flowers and tadpoles into frogs, caterpillars into cocoons, and cocoons into butterflies. And life into death. There’s nothing that time can’t do. Except run backwards. That’s its trouble really, it can only go one way.

She saw. But she went her own way just the same.

But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself.