Helen Gosney > Quotes

“Tis not only impolite, in fact downright bloody rude, to draw a sabre on innocent folk, but ‘tis also not a very good idea unless you have some idea of what they might be able to do,”
- Rowan d'Rhys del'Quist”
― Helen Gosney, All Gone, the Gods

“Even at the best of times, Stefan and Blob could probably manage to get lost in a hessian bag with the end open,”
― Helen Gosney, Red Rowan: Book 7: Changes of Fortune, Changes of Heart

“But only fools are never afraid of anything, Cris. The secret is not to let it overwhelm you to the extent that you’re afraid of being afraid, and you end up doing nothing when you should be doing something. Even if that something might sometimes turn out to be running like hell the other way." - Rowan d'Rhys del'Quist”
― Helen Gosney, All Gone, the Gods

“Rowan kept a straight face though he was laughing inside. You old windbag, he thought. Just because I don’t play your stupid little games doesn’t mean that I don’t know how to.”
― Helen Gosney, Red Rowan: Book 1: Forester's son

“showed a poor vocabulary and laziness,”
― Helen Gosney, Forester's son

“... a sabre truly has only one purpose, lads, and that’s to kill… don’t ever forget it.”
- Rowan d'Rhys del'Quist”
― Helen Gosney, Return of the Reluctant Hero

“Fess, lad, ‘tis just a word, like any other word I might use. The filthiness of it is in people’s minds.” Even his Gran said that a word that described something so beautiful and natural couldn’t be so very wrong. You might as well say ‘sky’ and ‘tree’ were wrong. Mind you, she also said that using it too often showed a poor vocabulary and laziness, and she certainly didn’t encourage either of those.”
― Helen Gosney, Red Rowan: Book 1: Forester's son

“Blob had always been an amiable buffoon of a dog, widely thought to have the brains of a cabbage, the common sense of a baked bean, and the courage of a particularly cowardly rabbit.”
― Helen Gosney, Red Rowan: Book 7: Changes of Fortune, Changes of Heart

“... He shall journey beyond knowing, but will return to the place of his heart.”
― Helen Gosney, The Bewitcher of Beasts & other short stories