49 Quotes by Sally Gardner

It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn’t understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.

Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.

What are you on?′ said AJ. ‘Leon’s mum has died and you are determined to add to the total sum of misery by going out with the girlfriend of the nastiest piece of manhood that was ever assembled in the factory of life...

There are train-track thinkers, then there’s you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.

I am told that sleep is a rehearsal for death. It is waking that kills us.

I collect words – they are sweets in the mouth of sound.

If things were different, if there were no revolution, no war, no threads of light, if he were rich, would he go back to London with her and ask for her hand in marriage? He smiled, for the answer was simple. Yes, yes, he would.

He stroked Sido’s cheek and bent down to kiss her, whispering what his heart had always known, what he had never said before to anyone. ‘I love you, I always will.

Our story is over, though in its end lies its beginning.