Colin Thompson > Quotes

“I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.”
― Colin Thompson, How to Live Forever

“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children’s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.”
― Colin Thompson

“Remember is the last month,' said Festival.
'Remember's not a month.'
'Of course it is,' said Festival. 'There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It's when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you'd start the next year out of balance.”
― Colin Thompson, How to Live Forever

“I died last night. Seventy years too young.”
― Colin Thompson

“She was wearing her new purple miniskirt with the split up the side and an incredibly bright red lipstick she had bought off the internet that was guaranteed to drive boys wild”
― Colin Thompson, The Floods #1: Good Neighbors

“...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.”
― Colin Thompson, The Floods #1: Good Neighbors

“Be a fridge, be a very fridge...”
― Colin Thompson, Good Neighbours

“They live down on gallery two in the Chinese Sixteenth.’ ‘Don’t you mean the Chinese Quarter?’ said Peter. ‘No. That would be a quarter of a gallery,’ Festival explained. ‘This is only a sixteenth.’ She”
― Colin Thompson, How to Live Forever