“Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.” Quote by Michael Morpurgo
“I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.” MenBelieveMadeEarthHellHell On Earth Book:Private Peaceful Source: Private Peaceful
“Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.” PeopleWantImportantWarHappensFighting Author:Michael Morpurgo
“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.” PeopleChildrenMovingParentWorryTeacherMarkDetention Author:Michael Morpurgo
“I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.” ThinkingWantStillsNot SureStoryteller Author:Michael Morpurgo
“Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.” HardReasonDifficultTeenagerBeing A Teenager Author:Melvin Burgess
“Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.” IfsKnowsRealMightHurtBeing RealIt HurtsKnow Yourself Author:Patrick Ness
“People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.” PeopleMatterStoriesTogetherLyingCrazyEventsComfortPatternsRandom Events Author:Patrick Ness
“Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.” DifferentMightTogetherStarsSoundVoicePlanetsMoonMountainSingingNotesStartingRopeOne WordWeavingDifferent Voices Author:Patrick Ness
“Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal” WorldHonestReaderTeenagerLoyal Author:Patrick Ness