34 Quotes by H.G. Parry

Today was my first day of high school, and it was not as expected. I thought people would want to learn in high school. Perhaps that was naive.

I thought you said everything in a book has meaning.” “It does! That doesn’t mean it means what you want it to mean!

Books don’t hurt people.” “What comes out of them jolly well does.

Truth, at least complete truth, isn’t held in words. But there would be no truth at all without them. It lies behind them and lurks around them and shines through them, in glimpses of metaphor, and connotation, and story.

There is not a poem on earth that doesn’t make sense to anyone.

I don’t care what everyone says, damaging books is worse than damaging people. People heal up. Books never do. The marks always show.

That’s the danger of stories,” Mum said. Lydia and I weren’t the only ones thinking about Charley, obviously. “They bring things into the world, and they can’t be put away again.