David Almond idézet

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

“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.”

“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”

“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.”

“They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.”

“Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.”

“Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.”

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

“I sit in my tree
I sing like the birds
My beak is my pen
My songs are my poems.”