Sally Gardner Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Sally Gardner
My stepmother was no beauty. She was round and squat with a face not unlike a potato that had been scrubbed. — Sally Gardner
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 ... — Sally Gardner
But that's her problem, not mine. No, my problem is elephantine. How do you eat an elephant, sir? Bit by tiny bit. — Sally Gardner
Many men spend their lives living in the wrong corner of their souls, mainly out of fear of what they might find on the other side. — Sally Gardner
In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky. — Sally Gardner
Gramps had the radio on, tuned to the only station that the authorities allowed us mere lava mites to listen to. Dripple for the workers of the Motherland. They sang it loud, they sang it clear: "And once those feet did tread upon silver sand And footprints deep marked out new moons of Motherland Which all salute with upraised hand." I went upstairs and put on my school uniform. Every part of me dead. Limp. Dead. — Sally Gardner
If my soul was filled with anything, then it was dust and the ashes of possibilities. — Sally Gardner
Few people can claim they are born into the right period of history. Most of us have to make do with the times we find ourselves in. — 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. — Sally Gardner
It is enough to know... Too much to see... — Sally Gardner
No matter how bad things looked, Gramps had always seemed a giant to me. He wasn't made up of any monstrous parts. — Sally Gardner
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. — Sally Gardner
Furniture, my good husband," she said, her mouth full of food, "that be too pretty is without pure thought. Tables with turned and carved legs only encourage the devil to dine."
My father stared at her, bewildered.
This house needs to be made ready for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, for when he returns to our fair city and takes his rightful place as king, he'll be needing a good meal in a godly home. Do not you agree, husband?"
My father was speechless. Maud, in no way put off by his silence, said, "He will be very hungry. It has been a long time since the Last Supper. — Sally Gardner
Doubt is a great worm in a crispy, red apple. — Sally Gardner
There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination. — Sally Gardner
There are too many ghosts walking this earth. They weigh heavy on the living. — Sally Gardner
The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear their voices calling me from far away. It lasted a minute or less. Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe I did not. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone. Would everything then have been alright? — Sally Gardner
Wouldn't it be good if we could let teachers do what they do best - teach. Not judge each child on a series of standardized exams. Let schools embrace, not exclude, those like me with a different way of thinking.
Stop praising literacy with one hand and closing libraries with the other. Let librarians be free to do what they do best: encourage a lifelong love of reading in every child, even the ones without a hope of ever getting an A star. — Sally Gardner
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. — Sally Gardner
I sat at the very back of the class - the blackboard could have been in another country. The words were just circus horses dancing up and down. At least, they never stayed still long enough for me to work out what they were saying. The — Sally Gardner
All she had to protect herself against him was silence, the one skill in which she had become an expert. — Sally Gardner
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. — Sally Gardner
I got through so much ink in the learning that the inkseller took to knocking at least once a week on the garden door. He had a gray solemn face that looked as if it was chiseled out of stone; he was stooped down like the letter C, as if he were Atlas carrying the weight of the world in his wooden barrel of ink. Maybe he did. I have learned that there is great power in words, no matter how long or short they be. — Sally Gardner
A secret told is mine to tell. Of truth and lies, the lesser hell. — Sally Gardner
That summer, in the wilderness of crumbling bricks and mortar, white roses had appeared in those derelict suburbs. Gramps said that if man was mad enough to destroy itself, at least the rats and cockroaches would have front-row seats, be able to enjoy the sight of Mother Nature reclaiming the earth. Outside — Sally Gardner
Our story is over, though in its end lies its beginning. — Sally Gardner
We live to die, we die to eternally live. — Sally Gardner
My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you, — Sally Gardner
I am told that sleep is a rehearsal for death. It is waking that kills us. — Sally Gardner
Stay calm. Don't go getting moon mad. Moon sad.
Moon morons. — Sally Gardner
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. — Sally Gardner
As if the words came not from her but from the breeze. — Sally Gardner
You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars. — Sally Gardner
He says nothing but I know he is listening. Words are the only medicine I have.
'You make sense of a world that is senseless. You gave me space boots so that I could walk on other planets. Without you, I'm lost. There's no left, no right. No tomorrow, only miles of yesterdays. It doesn't matter what happens now because I've found you. That's why I'm here. Because of you. You who I love. My best friend. My brother. — Sally Gardner
He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why? — Sally Gardner
Live you life, Sido, whatever happens. Live in the moment, don't live with regret.' He took his last kiss. — Sally Gardner
What more can anyone take from me?" said my father, his head bent down. "Everywhere I go I carry my hell with me. — Sally Gardner
You too are cast in sadness thicker than stone, heavier than water,' she says. 'It ties you, like me, to this leaden earth.'
I lean forward and kiss her.
'Only in dreams,' she says, 'can we be ourselves, uncaged, wild of spirit. Here I am free to climb a tree and find a boy with eyes as sad as mine. — Sally Gardner
Well, you could have knocked me sideways with a feather. — Sally Gardner
You make sense of a world that is senseless. You gave me space boots so that I could walk on other planets. Without you, I'm lost. There's no left, no right. No tomorrow, only miles of yesterdays. It doesn't matter what happens now because I've found you. That's why I'm here. Because of you. You who I love. My best friend. My brother. Hector — Sally Gardner
Am driving us home to Mrs. Lush in her shiny kitchen with a checked tablecloth in a house where the grass looks as if it's been Hoovered. You see, only in the land of Croca-Colas does the sun shine in Technicolor. Life lived at the end of the rainbow. — Sally Gardner
But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history. — Sally Gardner
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. — Sally Gardner