Zoe

“I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.”
― David Almond, Skellig

“What is is?’
‘I don’t know. I don’t even know if it’s true or if it’s a dream.’
‘That’s alright. Truth and Dreams are always getting muddled.”
― David Almond, Skellig

“Look at all the life in this," she said. "Every pip could become a tree, and every tree could bear another hundred fruits and every fruit could bear another hundred trees. And so on to infinity."
I picked the picks from my tongue with my fingers.
"Just imagine," she said. "If every seed grew, there'd be no room in the world for anything but pomegranate trees.”
― David Almond, Skellig

“We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her Joy.”
― David Almond, Skellig