49 Quotes by Sally Gardner

I wish I could unpick the stitches of time that have become all tangled and twisted together.

It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.

¿Por qué el ser humano es tan cruel,joder?¿Por qué?

I had never been interested in boys and had no notion that I ever would, seeing being in love and loving as a great tangle in which you could lose your head as well as your heart. Yet standing there that afternoon looking at the young man. I could well see how such knots in life were made.

You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.

There is more betwixt the day and the night than we can ever know.

I like him to sleep close to me. Danes says it is better than leaving him alone in a cradle to get too cold or too hot. Mistress Bedwell does not agree. She says that I should have a wet nurse and not hold him all the time, for it indulges him so."I laughed. "What nonsense!"Hester looked pleased. "It feels right, him being next to me.""Hester, do what you feel is best. Take no notice of Patience Bedwell.

All these questions and many more besides only occurred to me much, much later when there was no one left to ask.

The world we live in is nothing more than a mirror that reflects another world below its silvery surface, a land where time is but a small and unimportant thing, stripped of all its power.