55 Quotes by Jonathan Auxier

The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them.

I suppose I am remembering Passover as a way to remind myself that the struggle for freedom is as old as time. That there are always others who yet need to be delivered.

The man who can read is a king among paupers," he used to tell her. " Better than a king, I'll warrant. For there's plenty o' royal folk who don't know their A— from their E—!" The Sweep would always chuckle at this last part, and Nan had never known why.

Molly knew no good could come from a person hating what they could not change. p. 23

Promise you won't laugh," Charlie said."I can't promise that," Nan said. "But if I do, I'll try my best to make it a nice laugh.

That's what it is to care for a person," Toby said. There was not a hint of mocking in his voice. "If you're not afraid you're not doing it right.

Who says I'm never afraid? Of course I'm afraid. You can't have courage without fear, any more than you can have a ray of light without shadows." He sounded much more awake now. "Some things are frightening, and only a fool wouldn't be afraid of them." He scratched the back of his head. The girl wondered if he was thinking about the charity men, too. "Courage is feeling fear and facing it head-on.

There's what's smart and what's right." - Molly in the Night Gardener

Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had been when the battle broke out in the Nest; he was in a different world now.