Quotes by Frances Hardinge

Frances Hardinge

At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors for treason, ordered the creation of a new carp pool and banned limericks. Worse still, no progress had been made in tracking down the Kleptomancer, and of the two people believed to be his accomplices, both had been released from prison and one had been appointed food taster. Right-Eye was not amused. He had known for centuries that he could trust nobody but himself. Now he was seriously starting to wonder about himself.

Eye

Sleep

Two

Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.

Humanity

Kindness

Soul

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Black

Book

Mad

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

Wish

World

I find it hard to believe that a lady like…’ Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. ‘There is something elevated in the female spirit that will always hold a woman back from the coldest and most vicious forms of villainy.’ ‘No, there isn’t,’ Miss Kitely said kindly but firmly, as she set a dish in his hand. ‘Drink your chocolate, Mr Pertellis.

Believe

Hands

Missing

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Hedgehogs

Men

Would Be

If you want someone to tell you what to think,” the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, “you will never be short of people willing to do so.” . . . “Come now,” he said at last, “you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?

Ignorant

People

Thinking

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

Busy

Heroic

Seems

It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

Flawless

Hate

Hopeless

Making a wish is like saying, ‘I can’t deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

Bigger

Giving Up

Wish

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Believe

Bigger

Black

Book

Broken

Busy

Children

Cold

Conditions

Dishes

Distance

Ems

Exercise

Eye

Feet

Flawless

Forgiving

Girl

Giving Up

Growing

Hands

Hate

Hedgehogs

Hero

Heroic

Hopeless

Humanity

Ignorant

Imagination

Jumping

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Kindness

Kings

Lying

Mad

Magic

Men

Missing

Mother

Nests

Night

People

Revenge

Rotten

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Secret

Seems

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Quotes by Frances Hardinge

Frances Hardinge

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

If you want someone to tell you what to think,” the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, “you will never be short of people willing to do so.” . . . “Come now,” he said at last, “you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

Making a wish is like saying, ‘I can’t deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

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