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Frances Hardinge, née le 6 février 1973 à Brighton en Angleterre, est une écrivaine britannique qui écrit notamment de la littérature jeunesse. Son premier roman, Le Voyage de Mosca, a remporté en 2006 le prix Branford Boase et a été répertorié dans la sélection des meilleurs livres du School Library Journal, tandis que son roman L'Île aux mensonges a remporté en 2015 le Costa Book Award, le premier livre pour enfants à recevoir cette distinction depuis Le Miroir d'ambre de Philip Pullman en 2001. Elle a également été nominée et lauréate de plusieurs autres prix pour ses romans ainsi que certaines de ses nouvelles. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. février 1973  •  Autres noms Ֆրենսիս Հարդինգ, Франсис Хардинг
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Frances Hardinge: Citations en anglais

“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“Where is your sense of patriotism?"

I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched.”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.”

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Frances Hardinge

Source: Twilight Robbery

“I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.”

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Frances Hardinge

Source: The Lost Conspiracy

“In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable.

-Eponymous Clent”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“If you want someone to tell you what to think…"

"You will never be short of people willing to do so.”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“Do you know why a vandal is worse than a thief?’ asked the man on the right, in a soft growl. ‘A thief steals a treasure from its owner. A vandal steals it from the world.”

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Frances Hardinge

Source: A Face Like Glass

“Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.”

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Frances Hardinge livre Fly by Night

Source: Fly by Night

“Push something in someone’s face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.”

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Frances Hardinge

Source: Fly Trap