Quotes from Michael Morpurgo

But look after yourself - there will be great dangers on the way. Remember, the right road is never the easy road.

I ate three before I even touched my tea. They were sweet and crumbly, and succulent with melting butter. She talked on merrily again, to me, to the dog – I wasn't sure which. I wasn't really listening. I was looking out of the window behind her. The sun was bursting through the clouds and lighting the hillside.

Everyone back home in Bamiyan had rifles too. I think just about every man in Afghanistan has a rifle. It

that we should look out of the window, choose a star, and make a last wish before we went to sleep, and she told us we should wish the best, not just for each of ourselves, but more for each other, because we were all the best of friends.

The elephant was called Marlene. Mutti got to name her because she was working with the elephants in the zoo. She named her after a singer she loved, that many people loved in those days. Marlene Dietrich.

he's a fine, fine horse

What a friend I have in Charlie.

It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.

Magic obeys only the heart of the one who uses it. Your magic would always be a kind magic, because you are kind, I can tell. Please stay and help us.

Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation

You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to.

You must remember," she said, putting a bony hand on mine, "that true stories do not always end as we would wish them to. Would you like to hear the truth of what happened, or shall I make something up for you just to keep you happy?

proud of him for that. I have the bravest brother in the world.

He would look Piggy Bacon straight in the eye

Here there are no folds in the fields, only wide open plains, scarcely a hill in sight. And instead of church towers they have spires that thrust themselves skywards like a child putting his hand up in class, longing to be noticed. But God, if there is one, notices nothing here. He has long since abandoned this place and all of us who live in it.

Three Red Funnels and an Orchestra

She was looking out of the window

Every moment of the afternoon a month or so later was so deeply etched in my memory.

kind, to gaze in triumph at his gory head. So, remembering all this, let us all rejoice and feast together tonight. And in the morning I shall give you all your promised treasure.

How can you say that?' said Rudi. 'Just look at him, Karl. Can you not see that he's something special? 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.

I was a bit of a loner, not because I wanted to be. I was just like that. Books became friends to me.

I'm not saying nothing, excepting to say it were done because it were needed to be done. There were lives needed saving. And there's an end to it. Lie isn't about medals. Now off you go, and leave me be. I got my lighthouse to look after.' And he just turned and walked away.

But sometimes even the brightest light on a lighthouse cannot save a ship.

They fight a war and they do not know what it is for. Isn't that crazy. How can one man kill another and not know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language?