I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

I am so, so alive.

I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!

Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.