Malcolm McNeill > Quotes

“When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.”
― Malcolm McNeill, The Beginning Woods

“It had gathered into itself magical particles of who I was and what my life was.”
― Malcolm McNeill, The Song

“It’s true, he said, that if you have a lot of people there’s less cake to go round, but it’s also true that if there’s a lot of people you can bake a bigger cake.”
― Malcolm McNeill, The Song

“I wondered why messages in time could only be sent in one direction”
― Malcolm McNeill, The Song

“Or even more depressingly, maybe she did sometimes write it, wishing it could become something other than what it was—and then she’d rub it out, not to hide it from anyone else, but to hide it from herself, like Jonny was a dream she hated herself for having.”
― Malcolm McNeill, The Song

“I sat there thinking these thoughts, and at some point I began turning the dial again, making the past slide across the screen once more, passing events Mum might have read about, events that happened in the four years of time when they happened in both our worlds, before the worlds were separated forever by chips.”
― Malcolm McNeill, The Song

“The street was BFG quiet.”
― Malcolm McNeill, The Song

“the kind of jobs where you have to work Christmas to afford Christmas”
― Malcolm McNeill, The Song