Quotes from Robert Swindells

Nothing stays the same

I know it's hard. It's one of the hardest things there is, but you know we can't make people love us. It happens, or it doesn't.

I guess sometimes there are moments when people's lives change and they don't even know it. They can look back later, when everything's different, and say yes, that was the start of it?that's when it all began, and I didn't even notice.

That cold, dead look with something behind it like waiting

for the final lunge the boy whipped off his mitten and flung the ice-pips into the evil face. His voice echoed shrill through the cavern: "Brothers never more shall part: Melt the winter in his

I wanted to be part of the gang, and the quickest way to screw up something like that is to act like a drag