8 Quotes & Sayings By Sally Gardner

Sally Gardner is an English author, known for her work in contemporary fiction. She was born in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, and grew up in the village of Upper Slaughter, Monmouthshire. She studied English at University College London and has also taken part in the MA programme at the University of Kent. Her first novel, The Island, was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize for Fiction in 2006.

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He says nothing but I know he is listening. Words are the only medicine I have.‘ You make sense of a world that is senseless. You gave me space boots so that I could walk on other planets. Without you, I’m lost. There’s no left, no right. No tomorrow, only miles of yesterdays. It doesn’t matter what happens now because I’ve found you. That’s why I’m here. Because of you. You who I love. My best friend. My brother. Sally Gardner
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But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history. Sally Gardner
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It's the fricking reality that destroys plans. Sally Gardner
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I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound. Sally Gardner
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It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life. Sally Gardner
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It is enough to know, too much to see. Sally Gardner
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I had never been interested in boys and had no notion that I ever would, seeing being in love and loving as a great tangle in which you could lose your head as well as your heart. Yet standing there that afternoon looking at the young man. I could well see how such knots in life were made. Sally Gardner