Ellen Potter quotes

“Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.”
-- Ellen Potter

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.58, Macmillan

#Night Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Bed Quotes

“All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”
-- Ellen Potter

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.248, Macmillan

#Adventure Quotes #Moments Quotes #Crap Quotes

“It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.”
-- Ellen Potter

#Adventure Quotes #People Quotes

“They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it.”
-- Ellen Potter

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.81, Macmillan

#Children Quotes #Lying Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Give that man a Pixy Stix," Haddie said. "A what?" Lucia asked. "Hold on." She left then returned a moment later with a handful of colorful straws, one of which she threw at Max like a dart. He caught it in midair. That impressed Haddie and she tossed him another, just to see if he could do it again. He fumbled that one.”
-- Ellen Potter

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.128, Macmillan

#Men Quotes #Giving Quotes #Max Quotes

“Jeremy used to hate it when she was younger because someone in her class told her redheads were freaks of nature.But our mother told her that redheads were genetically more courageous than other people and that she should always where her hair long,like a wariors badge of honor.”
-- Ellen Potter

Source : Ellen Potter (2009). “Slob”, p.18, Penguin

#Mother Quotes #Hate Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.”
-- Ellen Potter

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.35, Macmillan

#Memories Quotes #Matter Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.”
-- Ellen Potter

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.131, Macmillan

#Adventure Quotes #Passion Quotes #People Quotes

“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”

“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from May 22, 2013

“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.”

“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

“I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.”

“Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.”

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.”

“I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.”