67 Quotes by Nancy Farmer

For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed.

Eejits can feel pain, mi patron, otherwise I couldn’t train them. I don’t think they suffer in the same way we do. To suffer implies emotion, and eejits don’t have that.

Tendai remembered his last birthday. It seemed one shouldn’t make wishes idly. Who knew which spirits were listening. He considered a moment and then thought, I wish for courage. Because with courage, you weren’t afraid to look at the truth. You weren’t afraid to ask questions or do the right thing.

I’d guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don’t get a swelled head over it. A cabbage has a purpose when someone needs to make soup.

Gods, if they’re neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.

He’s a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap.

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn’t know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard’s possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.

She took to reading with a fervor so extreme, Baba Joseph had to take the books from her hands by force. ‘Your eyes are not tractors. They are not meant to pull heavy loads,’ he said sternly.

He didn’t want anything new in his life, no matter how beautiful.