Elizabeth Knox Quotes

New Zealand, Writer
February 15, 1959

Elizabeth Fiona Knox ONZM is an award-winning New Zealand writer. She has authored eleven novels, three autobiographical novellas, and a collection of essays. Her best known works are The Vintner's Luck, which won several awards, has been published in ten languages, and made into a film of the same name by Niki Caro. Knox is also known for a literary fantasy series for teen readers by the name of, The Dreamhunter Duet. Her most recent novels are Mortal Fire, published in 2013, which also won several awards, and Wake.

Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied.

Elizabeth Knox
- Children
- Power
- Harm
The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

Elizabeth Knox
- Thought
- Flight
- Melted

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

Elizabeth Knox
- People
- Books
- Neighbors
You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible.

Elizabeth Knox
- Caught
- Gravity
- Heavy
Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met.

Elizabeth Knox
- Stranger
- Met
What no one else sees, no one else cares about.

Elizabeth Knox
- Cares
- Sees
- No One
Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.

Elizabeth Knox
- Happiness
- Sun
- Breath
“I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.”

Elizabeth Knox
- Loss
- Stone
- Sword

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

Elizabeth Knox
- Life
- Alone
- Plan
“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a map of no earthly geography."

Elizabeth Knox