Rundell Inc Quotes & Sayings

It was never too late, she said, to turn a living thing around, and a garden was the most living of things. — Katherine Rundell

If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt. — Katherine Rundell

he had kindness where other people had lungs, — Katherine Rundell

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit. — Katherine Rundell

The set of her chin suggested she might have slain a dragon before breakfast. The look in her eyes suggested she might, in fact, have eaten it. The — Katherine Rundell

I might not have told you if I'd known why you were asking. — Katherine Rundell

Never ignore a possible. ~Charles — Katherine Rundell

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved. — Katherine Rundell

It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist. — Katherine Rundell

It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set of stars and maps. — Katherine Rundell

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it. — Katherine Rundell

Her voice, he thought, was like water running over pebbles in sunshine. — Katherine Rundell

To the three men in gray coats and golden buttons just cresting the hill, the pantomime was a strange one. The speck of green merged with the gray, and the black with the flash of red, as they shot off toward north. — Katherine Rundell

Humans, on the whole, Feo could take or leave; there was only one person she loved properly, with the sort of fierce pride that gets people into trouble, or prison, or history books. — Katherine Rundell

Wolves are the witches of the animal world. — Katherine Rundell

Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings. — Katherine Rundell

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds? — Katherine Rundell

It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end. — Katherine Rundell

Stories can start revolutions. — Katherine Rundell

Sophie and Charles did not live neatly, but neatness, Sophie thought, was not necessary for happiness. — Katherine Rundell

People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard. — Katherine Rundell

I know these sorts of people. They're not men. They're mustaches with idiots attached. — Katherine Rundell

Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless — Katherine Rundell

Oh.' A syllable can express a great deal. Will's sounded of resignation but also of swear words, and the smell of rotting vegetation, and wary amusement and bitten fingernails. — Katherine Rundell

He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time. — Katherine Rundell

Feo wished she could explain - that the beauty of the world is itself a kind of company, and they lived in one of the most beautiful spots in the world. 'You can make the snow a kind of friend, if you know how. — Katherine Rundell

You shouldn't say what you don't mean — Katherine Rundell

He told her about the small officers' library, too, from which he sometimes stole books. 'They're the only good thing about the whole place. I sleep with a dictionary under my pillow, sometimes. Just to remind me that there are more words in the world than 'Come here, boy. — Katherine Rundell

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean. — Katherine Rundell

Books crowbar the world open for you. — Katherine Rundell