Morris Gleitzman > Quotes

“Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once

“A little hope goes a long way.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Then

“Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Grace

“Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once

“Everybody deserves something good in there life atleast once”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once

“We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united”
― Morris Gleitzman, Boy Overboard

“See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything?”
― Morris Gleitzman

“He didn't know the first thing about greed. He thought it was all about money.”
― Morris Gleitzman

“He can do it any time he wants,' says Zelda, hugging me from the other side. 'Any time he sees a Nazi, he can just do a poo.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Then

“Dreams are like stories. We have them for the same reason we have stories.”
― Morris Gleitzman, After

“Your mummy and daddy love you very much,’ she’d say. ‘But people can’t fry potatoes after they’re dead.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Maybe

“A person doesn’t have to be here to love you.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Then

“Sometimes,’ he says [Barney], his voice shaking as well,’ parents can’t protect their kids even though they love them more than anything in the world.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once

“Potato slices, crispy and fragrant. And toast glistening with what looks like actual creamy butter. And three fried eggs. That’s more eggs than I’ve had on the same plate ever in my life.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Maybe

“My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn’t go mouldy.”
― Morris Gleitzman, After

“It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.”
― Morris Gleitzman

“Suddenly I want him to stick one of the syringes into me so I can go into a deep sleep and never wake up and never feel this bad ever again.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once

“Why do people start wars when they know so many sad things are going to happen?”
― Morris Gleitzman, Then

“Dear Reader Once and its sequel Then are two parts of the same story, but they were written and published as two separate books. In this edition they are together for the first time. Felix and Zelda’s story came from my imagination, but it was inspired by a period of history that was all too real. My grandfather was a Jew from Krakow in Poland. He left there long before that time, but his extended family didn’t and most of them perished. Fifteen years ago I read a book about Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jewish doctor and children’s author who devoted his life to caring for young people. Over many years he helped run an orphanage for two hundred Jewish children. In 1942, when the Nazis murdered these orphans, Janusz Korczak was offered his freedom but chose to die”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once And Then

“those fried potatoes I can smell are for me. I think they are.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Maybe

“I’ve never seen real dead people. Real dead people are different from dead people in stories. When you see real dead people you want to cry.”
― Morris Gleitzman

“My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn't go mouldy.”
― Morris Gleitzman, After

“The leader gives me another hard stare. He's not very old, but he's going bald. His wispy pale hair looks like it's trying to get as far away as it can from his angry face.”
― Morris Gleiztman

“Leave the bad stuff in the past and concentrate on being happy now.

If I can.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Now

“Adults aren’t allowed to cry when they fall off a bike or hit their thumb with a hammer, but they can howl like five year olds when they’ve got a duty free bag in their hands.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Two Weeks with the Queen

“An apology is a gift that's worth more than it costs.”
― Morris Gleitzman

“A veces, los padres no pueden proteger a sus hijos incluso aunque les quieran más que a nada en el mundo. A veces incluso cuando lo intentan con todas sus fuerzas, no pueden salvarlos.
Puedo”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once

“Your mummy and daddy love you very much,’ she’d say. ‘But people can’t fry potatoes after they’re dead. Don’t you know anything?”
― Morris Gleitzman, Maybe

“Todo el mundo merece que le ocurra algo bueno en su vida, al menos una vez.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once

“Termine como termine mi historia, nunca olvidaré lo afortunado que soy.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Once