Chris Priestley Quotes
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After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.
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But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating.
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Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
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I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and partings.
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Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse?
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Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.
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Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?' 'What harm is there?' said the giant.
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From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
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Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
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Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished.
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'Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.'
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And where should mankind be without trees?
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What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.