David Almond Quotes

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Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.

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We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

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There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

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Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

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What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.

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Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

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They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

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Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

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And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

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Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

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When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

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Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

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