Alex Shearer > Quotes

“Time can do all sorts of things. It’s almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children, seeds into flowers and tadpoles into frogs, caterpillars into cocoons, and cocoons into butterflies. And life into death. There’s nothing that time can’t do. Except run backwards. That’s its trouble really, it can only go one way.”
― Alex Shearer, The Stolen

“Blood is thicker than water, as people say. (But then again so is ketchup.)”
― Alex Shearer, The Stolen

“Mrs Chadwick used to say the same about my English, about going round the houses. But to be honest, I like going round the houses. And as for beginning at the beginning, the reason I never start there is that I don’t know where the beginning is, and that’s the honest truth. And anyway, I’ve never known anything in my whole life that ever started at the beginning. Things aren’t like that. They usually start about halfway through, or near the end, and then work their way backwards, that’s how must things are.”
― Alex Shearer, The Stolen

“Was there? Was it true? Or was it just grown-ups making you scared with their own fears?”
― Alex Shearer, The Hunted

“I tell you, kid,” Deet said, “one day you’ll grow up and then you won’t be worth anything.”
― Alex Shearer, The Hunted

“But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself.”
― Alex Shearer, The Great Blue Yonder

“Ha! I like the world, kid. I like its sense of humour.
I like the way it gets its own back on the know-it-alls and the stuck-ups and the well-meaners.”
― Alex Shearer, The Hunted

“It was in their eyes. They seemed like people who had travelled in space and who had looked upon the immensity of the universe; eternity had moved into them, and taken up residence inside.”
― Alex Shearer, The Hunted

“Negali sakyti, kad pažįsti vietovę, jeigu nežinai, kaip ji atrodo tiek žiemą, tiek vasarą, tiek pavasarį, tiek rudenį. Tas pats su žmonėmis.”
― Alex Shearer, I Was a Schoolboy Bridegroom

“She saw. But she went her own way just the same.”
― Alex Shearer, The Hunted