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Never ignore a possible. ~Charles

I do, I'm afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

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

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

he had kindness where other people had lungs,

You look as though you own a minimum of one pony.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

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

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

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

You shouldn't say what you don't mean

Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.

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

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

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

Stories can start revolutions.

She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should be.

It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

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

But it's a child! You're a man!"
"Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.

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

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

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

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.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

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

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

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

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

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

Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.

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

Wolves are the witches of the animal world.