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Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything — David Almond

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

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

Death is hungry and Destruction is determined and it does not like its intended victims to get away. — David Almond

If you can imagine doing something, then you can do it. — David Almond

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. — David Almond

We are all wanderers and travellers, refugees and pilgrims until we return once more to the stars. — David Almond

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then. — David Almond

This might be heaven!
We might be living in heaven right now!
And we might be the angels! — David Almond

The world will be our oyster. We'll be wandering stars. We'll be footloose and free. — David Almond

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence. — David Almond

Nobody. Mr nobody. Mr bones and mr had enough and mr arthur itis. Now get out and leave me alone. — David Almond

You're my best boy. Whatever happens, you'll always be my best boy. — David Almond

Can love help a person to get better?' I asked. — David Almond

I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tail. — David Almond

Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do. — David Almond

I won't ask for enything mor complicated today as I don't wish to further disapoynt myself. — David Almond

I woke up and knew he was gone.
Straightaway I knew he was gone. When you love somebody you know these things. — David Almond

The letters make words and words make us. — David Almond

In the end she just said ... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free! — David Almond

You must live in peace," he told us. "We are only in this world for a short period of vivid and wonderful waking in an eternity of dreamless dark. — David Almond

All of us can do what we like."
"No we can't. You're stupid if you think so. — David Almond

We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her Joy. — David Almond

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them. — David Almond

Themes around education and learning run through my work. — David Almond

How can you turn yourself into something you want to be when you're alredy what you are? — David Almond

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page. — David Almond

He narrows his eyes.
"Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need. — David Almond

Look at the earth and you think it's solid," he said. "But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A labyrinth. — David Almond

She points at my chest.
"And much more interestingly, what's that?"
"Blood," I say.
She gets her camera out. — David Almond

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53 — David Almond

It was great to see the owls," I said.
She smiled.
"Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful. — David Almond

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

What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome? — David Almond

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that? — David Almond

We roamed between the angels and the eagles. Bats flickered against the starry sky. Moonlight poured down — David Almond

more 27 and 53,'i said. 'Food of the gods,' he said — David Almond

The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul. — David Almond

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

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me. — David Almond

It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward. — David Almond

Maybe poets get to you best when you're sort of dreaming, when you're hardly there at all. — David Almond

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. — David Almond

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. — David Almond

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.
Mina — David Almond

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything. — David Almond

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

Live an adventure. Live like you're in a story. — David Almond