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Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell Books

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Katherine Rundell is a British author born in 1987. Her works are known for their rich imagination and profound emotional depth, spanning both children's literature and adult fiction.

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“Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.”

Love Courage Bravery

Book:Rooftoppers

Source: Rooftoppers

“To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen.”

Love Sex Imagination Attention

Book:Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Source: Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

“We needed a symbol into which to pour our fear and mistrust of the world, and we have chosen the wolf, and chosen it with passion and commitment.”

Passion Fear Blame Chosen Mistrust Wolves Sacrificed

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“As the great Roman naturalist Pliny wrote, the proof of wealth is "to possess something that might absolutely be destroyed in a moment.”

Wealth Rich Possession Destroy Roman Pliny Posses

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“The greatest lie that humans ever told is that the Earth is ours, and at our disposal. It's a lie with the power to destroy us all.”

Earth Ethics Lies Animals

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“I understand spiders are hard to cherish. They appear to be all right angles and stubble, and they do not sleep, and their eyes never close, and we find it difficult to admire that which does not blink.”

Fear Cherish Spiders Apprehension Lovable No Blinking

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“Letters, Will thought, were like books: they were mostly about love.”

Love Books Letters

Book:Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

Source: Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

“And what is love at first sight but recognition?”

Love Love At First Sight

Book:The Explorer

Source: The Explorer

“Hard work always hurts somewhere.”

Inspiring Personal Growth Perseverance

Book:The Wolf Wilder

Source: The Wolf Wilder

“He was not tall or broad, but when he grinned it was so vivid that he appeared to take up most of the street and at least half the sky.”

Book:The Good Thieves

Source: The Good Thieves

“People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.”

Book:The Wolf Wilder

Source: The Wolf Wilder

“It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.”

Humor Truth Importance Dancing True Cats

Author:Katherine Rundell

“I was afraid that my heart had simply...run out. But it transpires that the heart has its own petrol station, its own coal, it's own soap. It will renew, so use it hugely.”

Book:The Explorer

Source: The Explorer

“I wish for someone to be with. I wish to be un-alone.” He hoped shooting stars did not care about grammar.”

Wish Loneliness Shooting Star Wishing Star

Book:One Christmas Wish

Source: One Christmas Wish

“Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.”

Stars Snow Wolves

Book:The Wolf Wilder

Source: The Wolf Wilder

“But she said people should be able to dance to music, so she learned the church songs and played them double time”

Music Dancing Cello

Book:Rooftoppers

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“Coming?" He said. He held out one hand The thing that amazed Sophie was that she didn't even have to consider. Perhaps because it was so beautiful. Perhaps because sometimes everybody needs to be stupidly and recklessly brave.”

Beautiful Brave Sophie Wire Walking

Book:Rooftoppers

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“Paris was darker than London: it was a city lit in blinks and flickers. And it was Fabergé egg beautiful, she thought. It was magic carpet stuff.”

Beautiful Paris Flicker Magic Carpet

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“Amongst other things, that she thought you very beautiful. I told her a little about you. She said you had the face of a warrior”

Beautiful Warrior Charles

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“The human creature is such a deceptively simple thing to look at. You can watch someone peel an orange or trip up a flight of stairs and forget that inside they are both strange and infinite. Take a human by the wrist and you have in your hand a piece of unending longing.”

Strange Infinite Longing Human Spirit

Book:The Poisoned King

Source: The Poisoned King

“Wolves, like children, are not meant to lead calm lives.”

Book:The Wolf Wilder

Source: The Wolf Wilder

“I think fantasy can be the best way to introduce children to huge ideas. In many ways, it's philosophy's gorgeously painted cousin.”

Children Ideas Philosophy Fantasy Childrens Literature

Author:Katherine Rundell

“It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.”

Stories Reading Books

Book:The Wolf Wilder

Source: The Wolf Wilder

“Children's books can teach us not just what we have forgotten, but what we have forgotten we have forgotten.”

Reading Children S Literature

Book:Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

Source: Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

“The baby was almost certainly one year old. They knew this because of the red rosette pinned to her front, which read, 1! "Or rather," said Charles Maxim, "the child is either one year old or she has come first in a competition. I believe babies are rarely keen participants in competitive sport. Shall we therefore assume it is the former?”

Humor Babies Birthdays

Book:Rooftoppers

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“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”

Thinking Sky Thought Thinkers

Book:Rooftoppers

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“Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.”

Inspirational Bravery

Book:The Wolf Wilder

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“Sophie realized she'd been holding her breath. She gulped in air. It was surprising what a difference oxygen made to bravery”

Bravery Breath Sophie

Book:Rooftoppers

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“I don't know where courage comes from. But I do know that if you can scrape together just a bit, more of it comes without your trying... So you don't need a great lump of bravery: only a tiny breath of it.”

Courage Bravery

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“Her armpits were prickling, and her face was growing sweaty. She hated lying. She wasn't sure if she was good at it; she suspended she was not.”

Lying Sweat Sophie

Book:Rooftoppers

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“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time.”

Humor Reading Humorous Latin Reading Books Cats Birds French English Horses Horseback Riding Introductions Reading Books Humor

Book:Rooftoppers

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“If you were to choose an animal to double-cross, it would be wisest not to choose a crow. They're formidable in intelligence: they are clever and wise enough to hold grudges against us.”

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“And I have seen people offer up their lives to save one another, as if it were as natural as breathing. I've known lovers find each other in war and famine. I have seen promises made and kept for entire lifetimes, unswervingly, as if it was easy.”

Love Hope Promises

Book:Impossible Creatures

Source: Impossible Creatures

“And finally, avoid the temptation to strike a pose and say "It's too late." It's not true. It's half-baked nihilism: and like all half-baked nihilism, it lazily temps us to think that what we do doesn't matter now. It does matter; it will always matter. The time to give up is never. Hope - active, purposeful, informed hope - is what we owe the world. A body of unimaginable splendor turns on its axis, calling us to its aid.”

Hope Temptation Too Late Nihilism Save The World It Matters

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“But those coins are wishes! You’re stealing other people’s wishes!” The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. “If you have money to waste on wishes, you don’t need the wishes as badly as I need the money.”

Money Wishes Coins

Book:Rooftoppers

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“I just liked the idea that there's still things that we don't know. At school, it's the same thing, every day. I liked that it might be all right to believe in large, mad, wild things.”

Inspiration Mystery

Book:The Explorer

Source: The Explorer

“The old errors are fantastical and fantastic, and revealing of human hopes and anxieties; our terrors, our desires for greater digestive health and sexual prowess, our quest for magical solutions to relentlessly human problems. And every scientist you meet will tell you: there is no reason to believe that we haven't got just as much wrong today as we have done in every generation up till now. It would be worth our holding that knowledge, tight and urgent, as we go; our learning, though vast, is an infinitesimally small fraction of what exists.”

Knowledge Magic Errors Hopes Human Problems Wrong Ideas Anxieties Wrong Conclusions

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake up in the morning and as we put on our trousers, we should remember the seahorse, and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asleep, and the same the next day, and the next. Each single seahorse contains enough wonder to knock the whole of humanity off its feet, if we would but pay attention.”

Wonder Pay Attention Awe Marvels Seahorse

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“Their defense mechanism has made them easy prey to humans - rather than offering protection, it renders them neatly and readily portable.”

Danger Safety Defense Mechanism Portable Easy Prey Pangolin

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

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“Amid all the Internet point-scoring, though, one thing is certain: spiders have no interest in your open mouth, which is moist and quivering and unwelcoming, and will not willingly go near it. There is just an inch of truth to it: you will have inhaled millions of microscopic pieces of spider in dust - but then, by that reckoning, you have inhaled substantial portions of people, too.”

Truth Eating Myth Dust Spiders Inhaled

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“For thousands of years Greenland sharks have swum in silence, as aboveground the world has burned, rebuilt, burned again.”

Burned Sharks Rebuilt Thousands Of Years

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“Storks are said to bring luck to the houses on which they roost. (They're also a fire hazard: they build nests up to six feet across and ten feet deep, returning year after year to add to them.)”

Good Luck Nests Stork Fire Hazard

Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“(He would never find it again, that kind of friendship. But once is enough. You need it only once—so that you may know what your human heart is capable of.)”

Friendship Emotions Companionship

Book:Impossible Creatures

Source: Impossible Creatures

“I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”

People Book Easy Easy To Get

Book:Rooftoppers

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“Books crowbar the world open for you.”

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“I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.”

Thinking Strange

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“It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?”

Thousand Bird Eight

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About the Author

Born: 1987
Known for: Author
Quotes: 47

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