Philip Reeve > Quotes

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”
― Philip Reeve

“Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'”
― Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb

“The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.”
― Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur

“Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright.
"A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well...”
― Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

“he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America”
― Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

“You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.”
― Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

“But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.”
― Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur

“That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.”
― Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur

“I felt a little like saying 'Eeeeeeeeek!' myself, but seeing Myrtle so afraid reminded me that I was British, and must be brave.”
― Philip Reeve, Larklight

“That's impossible,' said Fever, Engineerishly.”
― Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb

“And isn't that what all boys want and all men, too? Just to be taken seriously?”
― Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur

“Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.”
― Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb

“It will be all right, Tom. Wherever we go now, whatever becomes of us, we'll be together, and it will all be all right.”
― Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain

“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”
― Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

“Its a town eat town world”
― Philip Reeve

“But the look on his face was so strange that I hadn't the heart to take his story away from him. He believed it, see. He believed the old gods were on Arthur's side just as he believed that winter would follow autumn and the sun would rise tomorrow. And I thought that maybe that believing would make him strong and brave and lucky when the fighting came, and maybe without it he'd be killed, or turn and run away, which was worse than being killed. So I kept quiet.”
― Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur

“The Scriven men wore stack-heeled boots and pearl-studded evening coats; the ladies in their vast skirts looked like mythical creatures, half woman, half sofa.”
― Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb

“In the old days, I'd never given a thought to the future, and not much to the past. I'd lived simply in the now. I'd been happy if I had enough to eat, and nobody was hitting me. I'd been miserable when I was cold and frightened when I was ill, but mostly I gave no more thought than an animal did to what might happen tomorrow, or next week. Just an animal walking about on two legs, that's all I was till Myrddin changed me. It seemd to me sometimes I'd been happier that way.”
― Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur

“And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.”
― Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

“If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy's Own Journal, Blackwood's Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls, who come from a worldlet called Threlfall on the far side of the asteroid belt. This Threlfall is a cheerless, chilly spot, and the whole history and religion of the Threls has been concerened with their quest to knit a nice woolly coverlet for it.”
― Philip Reeve, Starcross

“The small lives of women don't make for good stories. That's why there were no girls in the stories Myrddin told, unless they were there as a prize for the hero to win at the end of his adventures.”
― Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur

“Uncle knows best.”
― Philip Reeve

“Uncle knows best.
-All the Lost Boys”
― Philip Reeve, Predator's Gold