Melvin Burgess Quotes

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• Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them. All
• I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with… Bit
• I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so… All
• In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can… Accumulate
• When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos… Animal
• Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was… All
• It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar Dad
• She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you… Bigger
• Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once. Inspirational
• The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put… All
• Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns,… Anarchy
• Love is a secret society, a community for two. Community
• He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it… All
• That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her. Happening
• The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like… Anyone
• She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I… Anyone
• I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all… All

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