"He'd come back, all open and helpless, and……" — Melvin Burgess
"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 was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with."
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17 Quotes by Melvin Burgess
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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…
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I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now…
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I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because…
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In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at…
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When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a…
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Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience…
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It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
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She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's…
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Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try…
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The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they…
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Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him.…
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Love is a secret society, a community for two.
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