Pari Thomson > Quotes

“Who says what's magic and what isn't?' said Hal. 'There's only what is. You wouldn't call it magic when a sunflower turns its head to follow the sun, because there's an explanation for it. In a way, everything is magic.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild

“And they would meet again, she knew, for a few short years. Years that were in her past and his future, but altogether timeless: like anytime when people are truly happy.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild

“The Grayside, with its mountains and rainforests, tigers and turnips, pumpkins and pangolins, was the opposite of gray. It was utterly full of magic. People had just forgotten how to see it. The whole world was brimming with wonder, if only you looked closely enough.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild

“Daisy loved this expression: chasing stories. She liked to imagine Ma waving a butterfly net through the air and scooping up flighty headlines and unruly articles: news about kings and anarchists, barrel bombs and jewel thieves, rigged elections and rare monkeys with golden eyes.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild

“Oh, and one more thing,' he added casually, pausing on the gangplank. 'The resistance has found out that the Reapers are planning to capture you, Max, at tonight's performance. They know about your disguise.'
'What?!' Max stared at Emil in horror.
'Yah, I know,' said Emil, shrugging. 'It is not so good.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:       Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“She felt tears on her cheeks, and knew that she was crying not for the Reaper King, but for the child he had been: clever and funny and full of love for every living thing. She was crying for all that had been lost.”
― Pari Thomson

“Daisy thought of Artemis’s cottage, the Roost, perched at the top of a beech tree in the heart of Mallowmarsh—much smaller than the Root Trees of Amazeria, and infinitely cozier. She thought of the warm kitchen, and Miss Tufton making scones for tea, and her little attic room with the round window that looked out over the green lawns and sparkling glasshouses. She was filled with a wave of longing so powerful that it almost overwhelmed her. “We can really live at Mallowmarsh?” she asked, feeling a sort of bittersweet explosion in her chest. “Together?” “Yes,” said Ma.”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“Despite the rain, Indigo looked, as always, like he’d been dipped in a vat of sunshine. His skin and eyes were the same gold-brown colour, like raw amber when you hold it up to the light. His brown curls sprang up in all directions, and he was wearing a pair of mud-spattered yellow overalls.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Life is a theatre, child. It is important to dress for the show.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea

“This plant, Albrecht - it is greater and more terrible than anything I have known. It is a thing with the power to change the course of the world.”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“Max went everywhere and tried everything. He visited floating sweetshops where he bought tiny chocolate goldfish that wriggled as you ate them, and toffee shrimps curled snugly in caramel shells. He went to bakeries where he found braided sugar loaves in the shape of boats, and gingerbread pirate ships complete with sugar-drop cannonballs. He passed cake shops that sold ten different kinds of chocolate cake, along with tiny golden vanilla biscuits shaped like dolphins, and shiny opera cakes with layers and layers of almond sponge and coffee cream.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

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― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“There was a great Christmas feast in the Orangery, where the long wooden tables were groaning with plates of food—golden roast chickens with crackling skins, and crisp hot roast potatoes, and carrots and parsnips covered in honey. There were round loafs of fresh bread studded with candied apples and walnuts, and wheels of cheese as creamy and rich as butter, along with jugs of mulled wine and hot apple cordial. There were platters of sweet cranberry Christmas cake, great tins of spiced Russian biscuits, and a real chocolate log that kept putting out more and more chocolate leaves and berries. The air was full of the smell of roasting chestnuts and vanilla cookies and the dizzying scent of sugar and cinnamon from the French toast”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“Her whole body tingled, like a bottle of sparkling water with the bubbles racing toward the top.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Who says what’s magic and what isn’t?” said Hal. “There’s only what is. You wouldn’t call it magic when a sunflower turns its head to follow the sun through the sky, because there’s an explanation for it. In a way, everything is magic. The magic is in the sunflowers and the trees and the grass, in the dandelions and the parakeets and earthworms. Even”—he wrinkled his nose—“in Brussels sprouts. It’s in me and you and Napoleon too: in all of us.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild

“Daisy swallowed as her friend handed over the dandelight. It was beautiful, perfect, whole: perhaps the only whole and unbroken thing in the vast, burning world.”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“Daisy, you have something I'll never have. Sheer, raw courage - and the kind of magic that matches it. The kind of magic that's hard to tame. The kind of magic that can grow a whole forest.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“To remind you to be wild.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild

“Max emerged soaking wet, and blinking, and there was a crown of coral on his head. It was, Daisy thought, the most beautiful and wild object she’d ever seen – the colour of a sunset, sharp around its edges, and set with rough pearls that seemed to shift colour with the sea, from blue to green to white.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“The wind was fresh, and the sky was blue and crossed with fresh white clouds like crisp pillowcases hung out to dry. Their boat was at the head of the three others they’d seen the night before, all of them as shabby as Daisy remembered, with peeling gold paint around their portholes. They looked like canal boats, except that they also had beautiful sails that snapped in the wind.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“dozens and dozens of memories: some good and some bad, but the greater part of them complicated, like most things in life.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“She thought quickly, talked freely, laughed loudly, forgave easily.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild: The Forest in the Sky

“Courage isn’t the absence of fear, his mother had told him once, sitting beside his hospital bed. True courage is feeling afraid and doing it anyway.”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“Vandals!' cried the Prof, shaking her fist at them. 'Hooligans. Ostrogoths.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea