86 Quotes by Katherine Rundell

He was not tall or broad, but when he grinned it was so vivid that he appeared to take up most of the street and at least half the sky.

Everybody needs secrets. Only be sure they are good ones.

Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

There's a lot writing about love at first sight. And what is love at first sight but recognition? It's instant knowledge: that this is a person who will make your heart larger - a lover, a child. The same applies to places.

When Sophie had first learned to read, Charles had kept the whisky in a bottle labeled CAT'S URINE, so that Sophie would not touch it, but she had uncorked the bottle and sipped it, and then sniffed at the underside of the cat next door. They were not at all similar, though equally unpleasant.

But make sure the risks you take aren’t taken to impress someone else.

To the three men in gray coats and golden buttons just cresting the hill, the pantomime was a strange one. The speck of green merged with the gray, and the black with the flash of red, as they shot off toward north.

The girl spread her arms as though she owned the place. "Welcome to Paris""Thank you. I'm Sophie""Yes. We established that,

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.