58 Quotes by Geraldine McCaughrean

What people don’t understand, they laugh at.

Being irretrievably damned had its advantages:.

I like people. I like watching them. It’s just that I’d prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

The world is hollow. It’s a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It’s just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they’ll never find their way out.

I hate clowns. You can’t see what they’re thinking.

But I refuse to say. Because I love him, and you’d give anything, wouldn’t you? You’d give anything for someone you love not to die alone and in scalding agony?

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn’t have. He is everything I needed and couldn’t find in real life. Of course he is. That’s why I invented him.

The moment a child answers the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ he is halfway to being an adult.