Quotes from Nancy Farmer

You get used to being evil.

Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap, declared Listen. You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met. Both of you be quiet

I could do it, Listen boasted. Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet. You can't even reach the on button, said Cienfuegos.

Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The result was a burst of creativity and prosperity never seen before.

You must not be hurt by other people's ignorance.

humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.

If you squat on a path, you'll get boils on your backside.

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.

Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch. What happened? Matt asked, gasping. I went from one person to the next, trying to wake them up, but they were all dead, wrote Daft Donald.

I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down.

To speak was to open a door into his carefully built fortress, and anything might rush inside.

Sorrow fought with joy in his mind. He was going home, but he had lost Thorgil and Rune forever.

Matt had no trouble believing her.

The mouse is safest when she doesn't leave footprints in the butter.

Through her eyes, Matt saw the world as an infinitely hopeful place.

He had no more control over his life than a dog on a chain, but caring for Lucy made him feel…well…strong.

Eejits can feel pain, mi patron, otherwise I couldn't train them. I don't think they suffer in the same way we do. To suffer implies emotion, and eejits don't have that

Once, he'd been satisfied by the music alone. Now he had learned about friendship...

I think that people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.

He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap.

They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.

He refused to think about her, or when he did, he quickly thought of something else to drive her image from his mind. After a while he forgot what she looked like, except in dreams.

Don't you think I'm owed those lives?

This is my clone. He's the most important person in my life.