37 Quotes by Melvin Burgess

The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.

Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.

She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

It's mind control, see. You have to go to school, get those exams, get to university or college, get a job, get married, don't miss the boat, do it now or you'll shoot your life down the drain. Yeah. They got you as soon as you were born. They never risked a second of your life. When you have kids they'll be telling them they have to wear a plastic mask and put a penny in the slot about their nose before they can breathe in.

Try it. You don’t have to do it ever again if you don’t want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

She wrote, ‘Dandelion, I love you.’ And I thought that was magic. It’s not in you, it’s between you. It’s bigger and stronger than you are.

He’d come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that’s what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.