Quote by Katherine Rundell Download Open image ““Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.”” — Katherine Rundell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I guess children believe whatever they want to believe. Perhaps adults do too.” — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“The trouble with adults is that they never believe kids can do something even when they have good ideas.” — Jean Merrill Copy Share Image
“Kids have faith. Adults have the facts that make faith seem like kid's stuff.” — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more… — Frances A. Washburn Copy Share Image
“In a million ways, a million times, you were told and taught and shown that you did not matter and had no value. And… — Danu Morrigan Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested to believe in something, but to understand the people who believe.” — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“They don’t actually believe in anything, you understand, so much as they have the habit of believing.” — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“I trust in reality more than beliefs, one is taught and the later is experienced.” — Wali Copy Share Image
“There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.” — Sylvia Engdahl Copy Share Image
“She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds? — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“Why didn’t she keep looking?” “My darling, because she is an adult.” Sophie ducked behind her hair. Her face was hot and tight and… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“When Sophie had first learned to read, Charles had kept the whisky in a bottle labeled CAT'S URINE, so that Sophie would not touch… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.” — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“Quite suddenly Sophie couldn't bear it. She pelted up to her bedroom, tripping over the stairs. The tears in her eyes were making the… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“The baby was almost certainly one year old. They knew this because of the red rosette pinned to her front, which read, 1! "Or… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“But it's a child ! You're a man !" "Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.” — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
“If you have money to waste on wishes, you don't need the wishes as badly as I need the money.” — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with. — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
