86 Quotes by Katherine Rundell

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

We are not good, as a human species, at accepting that extraordinary things do sometimes happen.

He’d intended it to sound reassuring, but instead his voice had landed somewhere between “desperate lying” and “stern aunt on a deathbed.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

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.

A beetle lumbered up onto her arm, and she stilled herself, enjoying the tickling feeling of its thread-thin feet. It was deep green with shimmers of blue and turquoise, with pitch-black legs. She kissed it very softly. If happiness were a color, it would be the color of this beetle, thought Wil.

Her voice, he thought, was like water running over pebbles in sunshine.

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

If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt.