David Almond, My Name Is Mina Quotes

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

I sit in my treeI sing like the birdsMy beak is my penMy songs are my poems.

We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.We let the stars shine into us.

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

In the end she just said..... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!