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I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.Katherine Rundell
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If music can shine, Sophie thought, this music shone... 'It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! 'When the music closed, she clapped until the rest of the audience had stopped and until her hands were hot and blotched with red... There was something in the music that felt familiar to Sophie. 'It feels, ' she said to Charles, 'like home.Katherine Rundell
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Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie–two words for the same thing.Katherine Rundell
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You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.Katherine Rundell
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It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.Katherine Rundell
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He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time.Katherine Rundell
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Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.Katherine Rundell
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Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.Katherine Rundell
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Governments can do both great and stupid things.Katherine Rundell
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Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.Katherine Rundell
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But those coins are wishes! You’re stealing other people’s wishes! ” The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. “If you have money to waste on wishes, you don’t need the wishes as badly as I need the money.Katherine Rundell