Marcus Sedgwick quotes
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“A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.”
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“If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?”
-- Marcus SedgwickSource : Marcus Sedgwick (2011). “Midwinterblood”, p.162, Hachette UK
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“I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.”
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“There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.”
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“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”
-- Marcus SedgwickSource : Marcus Sedgwick (2009). “Ghosts and Gadgets”, p.185, Hachette UK
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“There never was a story that was happy through and through.”
-- Marcus SedgwickSource : Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.26, Hachette UK
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“Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight. He corrects himself. Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his journalist’s brain make a correction, rubbing out a long-held belief, writing a new one in its place. He did not believe in love at first sight. He thinks he might do so now.”
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“And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.”
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“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.”
-- Marcus SedgwickSource : Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.34, Hachette UK
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“An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.”
Source : 1935 Uncommon Law,'Fox-Hunting Fun'.
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“When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.”
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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK
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“I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.”
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“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”
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“A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”
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