Lesley Howarth > Quotes

“Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“You're special, not strange. You should be glad.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason not to be happy.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. His life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.”
― Lesley Howarth

“The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“His knowingness made him cold.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Nothing ever really goes away.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do?”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it one me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do?”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“I sort of felt -- frightened, you know?
Frightened of what?
Being alone.
Alone is scary. I know what you mean.
Plus, I'm scared of myself.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have?”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Invisibility was a tricky thing to get right. It had to do with blocking the way people saw you -- with absorbing light instead of reflecting it.”
― Lesley Howarth

“He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2