58 Quotes by Geraldine McCaughrean

Lord bless us! I never would have believed it! said the friar, startled out of his usual cynicism. ‘An honest man!

The gods never meant you to live forever, so why spoil they life they did give you? Is a rainbow any less beautiful because it’s short-lived? Or because you can’t grasp hold of it? Consider, man. Perhaps it is beautiful expressly because of that.

The friar organized a hunt. But the Alchemist was long gone – lost among the townspeople like one bad penny melting into a puddle of lead.

I wept my way through teaching practice.