Alone on a Wide Wide Sea Quotes

“That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“One day," she told us, "you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“good experiences give us happiness but bad experiences teach us good lessons”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“I am a story as well as a happening, and I want my story to be known,”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still. And it is still because death, when it comes, is always over. There's only terror in it if you fear it and ever since my first death, Wes' death, I have never feared it. It is simply the end of a story, and if you've loved the story then it is sad. And sometimes, as it was with Wes, it is an agony of sadness.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“I should begin at the beginning. I know that. But the trouble is that I don’t know the beginning. I wish I did. I do know my name, Arthur Hobhouse. Arthur Hobhouse had a beginning, that’s for certain. I had a father and a mother too, but God only knows who they were, and maybe even he doesn’t know for sure. I mean, God can’t be looking everywhere all at once, can he? So where the name Arthur Hobhouse comes from and who gave it to me I have no idea. I don’t even know if it’s my real name. I don’t know the date and place of my birth either, only that it was probably in Bermondsey, London, sometime in about 1940.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“I should start at the beginning, I know that. But the trouble is that I don’t know the beginning. I wish I did.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“Arthur Hobhouse is a happening. I’ve been a happening for sixty five years, or thereabouts, and the time has come now for me to put my life down on paper. For me this will be the birth certificate I never had. It’s to prove to me and to anyone else who reads it that at least I was here, that I happened.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“Time gathers speed as we get older. Life flashes by all too fast, and is over all too soon.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“We listened agog, because she was a wonderful storyteller. She could paint pictures in your head with words, and she could touch the heart of you too.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“I seem to have forgotten as much as I’ve remembered. It’s as if time itself has taken its time during my childhood, but once I got off that bus in Sydney it picked up speed, and from then on it was a roller coaster of a ride, and a bumpy one too, that brought me from then to now, leaving me with only fleeting moments of clarity, the highs and the lows, with so much in between, but lost to me for ever.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“I think I was born to sail, and I mean that. So when I set off on my great sailing adventure, it was because I wanted to do it.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“He believed that we live on only as long as our story is told. I believe that too.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“Three Red Funnels and an Orchestra”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“Kookaburras”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“He would look Piggy Bacon straight in the eye,”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“You need people like Marty just to keep you going.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea