Ursula Dubosarsky > Quotes

“Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day

“And we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day

“Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Word Spy

“I had never heard Ellery laugh before, not out loud. I loved the sound, it filled me up. It tinkled like a magic bird.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Blue Cat

“How can you be too friendly?”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Red Shoe

“They came out into the sunshine and the wind, one after the other like dice falling from a cup.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day

“The year began with the hanging of one man and ended with the drowning of another.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day

“Hilda was philosophical. That means you think everything will turn out for best, according to my father. Or if you don't actually think it, you pretend to.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Blue Cat

“The best stories never end - they keep on going, inside you.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The March of the Ants

“Cubby kept looking for Miss Renshaw--it was like waiting for the bus, constantly thinking that each little sound was Miss Renshaw and Morgan coming back,”
― Ursula Dubosarsky