86 Quotes by Katherine Rundell

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

But she said people should be able to dance to music, so she learned the church songs and played them double time

It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.

Paris was darker than London: it was a city lit in blinks and flickers. And it was Fabergé egg beautiful, she thought. It was magic carpet stuff.

Amongst other things, that she thought you very beautiful. I told her a little about you. She said you had the face of a warrior

Coming?" He said. He held out one handThe thing that amazed Sophie was that she didn't even have to consider. Perhaps because it was so beautiful. Perhaps because sometimes everybody needs to be stupidly and recklessly brave.

If music can shine, Sophie thought, this music shone... 'It's like eight thousand birds, Charles!'When the music closed, she clapped until the rest of the audience had stopped and until her hands were hot and blotched with red... There was something in the music that felt familiar to Sophie. 'It feels,' she said to Charles, 'like home.

The snow gossiped and hinted at storms and birds. It told a new story every morning. Few grinned and sniffed the sharpness of the air. It’s the most talkative weather there is...

Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.