Siobhan Dowd > Quotes

“The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.”
― Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child

“Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.”
― Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child

“has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?”
― Siobhan Dowd

“Salim,' She said, as if he were in the room. 'I'll have your guts for garters.' I has never heard this before and wondered what garters were. Kat told me later that they are what women used to wear around their thighs to keep their stockings up and they were elasticated. I do not think guts would be a tidy way of doing this.”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“The difference between laughing your head off and shouting your head off is that with one you are happy and with the other you are angry.”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“Go. Run with it. Make trouble.”
― Siobhan Dowd, A Monster Calls

“What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?”
― Siobhan Dowd

“Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it is a good way to describe things.”
― Siobhan Dowd

“Kat had her arms folded and her hair was tied in what girls call a topknot. Her skinny, bony face jutted out. With her tilted chin and dark eyebrows she seemed sharper, somehow, as if she was more in focus than other people round her, or more real. You couldn't help noticing her, whether you were looking for her or not.

Maybe that's what being pretty meant, I thought. ”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“Something terrible happened during those forty-four minutes... Death. I realised it was real. I would die one day. Kat would die. Mum would die. Dad would die... It was not a question of if but when. Of course, I'd known death before. But during those fifty-four minutes I really knew it. That's when I realised there are two kinds of knowledge: shallow and deep. You can know something in theory but not know it in practice ...I thought of the long chain of all the days of my life and wondered how far along that chain I'd already got. Was I still just starting, halfway along, or nearing the end?”
― Siobhan Dowd

“The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.”
― Siobhan Dowd

“And drawers started opening in my brain, drawers I hadn't opened in years, and I was slamming them shut again but bits of memory kept coming, a voice here, a scream there.”
― Siobhan Dowd, Solace of the Road

“Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it was a good way to describe things.”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“Lips up, loads of teeth showing = very amused, happy. Lips up, no teeth showing = slightly amused, pleased. Lips pressed together, slightly turned down = not amused, slightly cross, or else puzzled (hard to tell which). Lips pressed together, eyes scrunched up at the same time = very displeased, angry. Lips round like an O and eyes wide open = startled, surprised.”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“The world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“the”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“ONTLI ECUR”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“lilo on the floor next to my bed was empty. I looked out of the window”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“mosher?”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“From the top of the ride, Kat says London looks like toy-town and the cars on the roads below look like abacus beads going left and right and stopping and starting. I think London looks like London and the cars like cars, only smaller.”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“Youngsters are more worth listening to than a legion of adults.”
― Siobhan Dowd, London Eye Mystery, The

“neighbours”
― Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery

“Продължихме да седим, без да говорим. Думите на мълчанието обаче са най-силни.”
― Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child

“– Той ми каза, че ние страдаме повече заради греховете, породени от бездействие, отколкото заради тези, дошли вследствие на нашите постъпки.
– Какво значи това?
– Предполагам, означава, че често пъти това, което не сме успели да направим, води след себе си повече беди от това, което сме сторили.”
― Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child

“Thule was sighted, but only from afar.”
― Siobhan Dowd