86 Quotes by Katherine Rundell

People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

Children's books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place.

But it's a child! You're a man!""Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.

And what is love at first sight but recognition?

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

But the writing we call children’s fiction is not a childish thing: childish things include picking your nose and eating the contents, and tantruming at the failure to get your own way. The 45th President of America is childish. Children’s fiction has childhood at its heart, which is not the same thing.

To throw the knife would be death...She wanted nothing to do with death--nothing to do with finality, with endings, with the dark of it. She hated the man more than she hated any living thing, but he was living.