144 Quotes by Michael Morpurgo

Tonight, more than any other night, I want to feel alive.

Here there are no folds in the fields, only wide open plains, scarcely a hill in sight. And instead of church towers they have spires that thrust themselves skywards like a child putting his hand up in class, longing to be noticed. But God, if there is one, notices nothing here. He has long since abandoned this place and all of us who live in it.

When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.

Secrets are lies by another name.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

One day," she told us, "you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.