David Almond Quotes

“There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.”
― David Almond, Kit's Wilderness

“Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.”
― David Almond, Kit's Wilderness

“It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of.”
― David Almond, Counting Stars

“The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul.”
― David Almond

“Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.”
― David Almond, Counting Stars

“Me great achievement is that I have been happy, that I've never been nowt but happy”
― David Almond, Harry Miller's Run