Quotes from book

The Homeward Bounders

“There was a little white statue there. Now I'm not artistic. I saw it was of a fellow with no clothes on - I always wonder why it's Art to take your clothes off: they never put in the goose pimples - and this fellow was wrapped in chains. He didn't look as if he was enjoying himself, and small wonder.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Homeward Bounders

Source: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 13.

“You wouldn't believe how lonely you get.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Homeward Bounders

Source: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 36.

“That was the trouble with Joris. He was nice. You ended up liking him, whatever you did. Even when you wanted to shake him till his head fell off.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Homeward Bounders

Source: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 131.

“I was a thoroughly hardened Homeward Bounder. There seemed nothing I didn't know.
Then I ran into Helen. My friendly neighbourhood enemy. There really was nothing like Helen on any world I'd ever been to. I sometimes didn't think she was human at all.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Homeward Bounders

Source: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 70.

“"Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Homeward Bounders

Source: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 56.