Catherine Cooper > Quotes

“Jack hoped they weren’t going back to Silver Hill, even in daylight. ‘Are we going far?’ Elan laughed. ‘Only to the far end of the kitchen garden, the bushes there are laden with fruit but it will probably take us till lunchtime to pick enough.’ ‘They’re for picking, not eating,’ Nora reminded Camelin. ‘It’s not my fault. It’s not easy picking blackberries with a beak without squashing them. You wouldn’t want me to put squashed fruit in the bowl would you?”
― Catherine Cooper, The Jack Brenin Collection

“THE GOLDEN ACORN CATHERINE COOPER ILLUSTRATIONS BY RON COOPER and CATHERINE COOPER”
― Catherine Cooper, The Jack Brenin Collection

“Thing is, I can see Adam’s an arse in many ways, and he spends almost the whole time when we’re together trying to wind me up, but he’s also my brother, whether I like it or not. Always has been, always will be. There’s a bond there. It’s maybe difficult to understand if you don’t have a sibling. Even when I hate him, which quite often I do, I know that . . . well, deep down, I don’t hate him really.”
― Catherine Cooper, The Chalet

“I’ve never been skiing before. It’s not something you generally get to do when you grow up on a council estate, is it? But since I started at Oxford last year, I’ve got used to keeping quiet about that kind of thing. My vowels have rounded out, I say lunch instead of dinner, dinner instead of tea and try to remember not to say toilet. I didn’t do it deliberately, it just happened.”
― Catherine Cooper, The Chalet