5 Quotes by Sophia McDougall

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    What about our human rights,' demanded Carl, who'd gathered a small deputation of kids within minutes. 'There is a WAR ON,' said Crewman Devlin, shortly. I wondered if this meant grown-ups actually listen to you when there wasn't a war on, because somehow I was sceptical.

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    The fact that someone had decided I’d be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.

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    When the polar ice advanced as far as Nottingham, my school was closed and I was evacuated to Mars.

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    But still. It has to end sometime. Wars always do. Everything has to end,' said Josephine, eating another ginger biscuit and getting unexpectedly philosophical. 'Yeah. Things like human civilisation,' I said.

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    What about our human rights,′ demanded Carl, who’d gathered a small deputation of kids within minutes. ‘There is a WAR ON,’ said Crewman Devlin, shortly. I wondered if this meant grown-ups actually listen to you when there wasn’t a war on, because somehow I was sceptical.

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