Michael Morpurgo > Quotes

“I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions”
― Michael Morpurgo, I Believe in Unicorns

“Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“cause when there's life there's still hope”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“I must survive. I have promises to keep.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“Tonight, I want very much to believe that there’s a heaven, that death is not a full stop, and that we will all see one another again.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living. -Kensuke”
― Michael Morpurgo, Kensuke's Kingdom

“There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“He laughed to himself he said because if he did not laugh he would cry.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.”
― Michael Morpurgo

“He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Farm Boy

“I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“After this night is over, then you can drift away, they you can sleep for ever, for nothing will ever matter again.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“I tried to smile back, but no smile came, only tears.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

“For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.”
― Michael Morpurgo

“There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?”
― Michael Morpurgo - War Horse

“But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse