6 Quotes & Sayings By Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce was born in England in 1972. At the age of 30 he became one of the country's most successful children's authors. He is best known for his children's books, including his #1 children's bestseller The Bone Sparrow, which was adapted into a major motion picture. He has also written critically acclaimed novels for adults, including the acclaimed What We Did on Our Holiday and The Boy in the Dress, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction.

Oh. My. God.’ she said, pointing out of the window....
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Oh. My. God.’ she said, pointing out of the window. ‘Do you know what that is?’ I nodded and said, ‘I think I may have seen it before.’‘ That, ’ said Florida, ‘is the Moonyouidiot. Frank Cottrell Boyce
We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no...
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We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there’s no wind. Frank Cottrell Boyce
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And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne. Frank Cottrell Boyce
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There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small. . Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss. Frank Cottrell Boyce