Aanya Mathur > Aanya's Quotes

“Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.”
― E.D. Baker, Unlocking the Spell

“All our lives are hard in one way or another... But listen to me... We need to be kind to each other, and stick together, OK? This place is tough enough without you making my life a misery.”
― David Walliams, RatBurger

“the”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“...Adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one--that no one else could quite understand.”
― Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea

“No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony

“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool

“Each of us carries the map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even in the way we grow.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“The threads of problems dangled in front of me, and I tried to think of a way to weave them into a solution. I”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Each of us carries a map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even the way we grow.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“can see you are doubting me, Isa, but I believe it. I believe that that boat was not of this earth, or, at least, was not of the human earth. It was given to him by the island, and taken back. All things have a cycle, Isabella, a habit of returning the way they came. Seasons, water, lives, perhaps even trees. You don’t always need a map to find your path back.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“leaves were like lace, criss-crossing blackly over tangles of dead branches. I”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“Together, we plummeted into dark.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon, and the constant battle with the wind was exhausting for us as well as the horses. Fierce”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“I don't like to be in a dark where stars don't shine.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

“This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“Away from the front, where the supply lines ran, there were rest camps and first aid stations, and even patches of farmland. Often at that time of year you could hear skylarks over the fields. Soldiers remarked how strange it was that the birds should be there, but in fact the birds had been there for centuries.
The really strange thing was that the soldiers were there.”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“There were no rules, only consequences.”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“There were not rules, only consequences”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big bathtub.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."
"Why?"
"Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“This is the twelfth –’ the headmaster glances up from his notes – ‘no, let me correct that – the thirteenth time you’ve been in trouble this term, Agatha.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key

“Hang on …’ Liam says. ‘Aren’t there only thirty-two pods? I read about it – thirty-two pods for the thirty-two boroughs of London.’ ‘Yeah, but there’s no number thirteen. So there’s a number thirty-three to make up for the missing pod,’ I say.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key

“Ah, Mademoiselle Oddlow - trouble is all around. But heroes are rare.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key

“I decide not to paraphrase Poirot’s thoughts on fish and chips, that ‘when it is cold and dark and there is nothing else to eat, it is passable’.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key