Philip Reeve Quotes

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• An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
• Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes…
• That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they…
• he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America
• But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.
• The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
• That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't…
• Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
• Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well...
• You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and…
• Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.
• It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the…
• I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
• Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using…

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