Skellig

by David Almond

“Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you’re looking at more clearly.

“My mother educates me,” she said. “We believe that schools inhibit the natural curiosity, creativity, and intelligence of children. The mind needs to be opened out into the world, not shuttered down inside a gloomy classroom.”

“That’s all right. Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.”

“I love the night,” said Mina. “Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”

‘Love is the child that breathes our breath/Love is the child that scatters death.’