Lesley Howarth Quotes & Sayings

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely. — Lesley Howarth

Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume. — Lesley Howarth

The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong? — Lesley Howarth

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood. — Lesley Howarth

I sort of felt -- frightened, you know?
Frightened of what?
Being alone.
Alone is scary. I know what you mean.
Plus, I'm scared of myself. — Lesley Howarth

It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think? — Lesley Howarth

Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid. — Lesley Howarth

I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble. — Lesley Howarth

His knowingness made him cold. — Lesley Howarth

Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them. — Lesley Howarth

Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do? — Lesley Howarth

You're special, not strange. You should be glad. — Lesley Howarth

Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason not to be happy. — Lesley Howarth

I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people. — Lesley Howarth

Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. — Lesley Howarth

He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen — Lesley Howarth

Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it. — Lesley Howarth

But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them. — Lesley Howarth

Nothing ever really goes away. — Lesley Howarth

Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. His life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better. — Lesley Howarth

That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have? — Lesley Howarth

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect. — Lesley Howarth

I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins. — Lesley Howarth

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy. — Lesley Howarth

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down. — Lesley Howarth

Invisibility was a tricky thing to get right. It had to do with blocking the way people saw you -- with absorbing light instead of reflecting it. — Lesley Howarth