86 Quotes by Katherine Rundell

Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.

I don't know where courage comes from. But I do know that if you can scrape together just a bit, more of it comes without your trying... So you don't need a great lump of bravery: only a tiny breath of it.

I have a feeling you’re supposed to brush your hair if you’re hoping to fall in love.

Hard work always hurts somewhere.

The set of her chin suggested she might have slain a dragon before breakfast. The look in her eyes suggested she might, in fact, have eaten it.

Her heart was dancing double-time.

But even airplanes heading toward Belgium can work magic, if you have luck and love and Christmas on your side.

I wish for someone to be with. I wish to be un-alone.” He hoped shooting stars did not care about grammar.

I was afraid that my heart had simply...run out. But it transpires that the heart has its own petrol station, its own coal, it's own soap. It will renew, so use it hugely.