Quotes From "Skellig" By David Almond

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either. David Almond

Look at all the life in this, " she said. "Every pip could become a tree, and every tree could bear another hundred fruits and every fruit could bear another hundred trees. And so on to infinity." I picked the picks from my tongue with my fingers." Just imagine, " she said. "If every seed grew, there'd be no room in the world for anything but pomegranate trees. David Almond

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?" I said nothing." What colour's a blackbird?" she said." Black"" Typical! David Almond

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.' She looked up from her book.' I would hope, though, ' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina David Almond

It was great to see the owls, " I said. She smiled." Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful. David Almond

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53 David Almond

I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots of them went to Ward 34 on the top floor. She said she thought that was a silly place to put people with bad bones who had such trouble walking and climbing stairs. David Almond

She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid themselves away. Spring came when she was released and made her slow way up to the world again. The world became brighter and bolder in order to welcome her back. It began to be filled with warmth and light. The animals dared to wake, they dared to have their young. Plants dared to send out buds and shoots. Life dared to come back. . David Almond