Rooftoppers Quotes

“I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Books crowbar the world open for you.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“I know these sorts of people. They're not men. They're mustaches with idiots attached.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Never ignore a possible. ~Charles”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set of stars and maps.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“But it's a child! You're a man!"

"Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“But those coins are wishes! You’re stealing other people’s wishes!”
The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. “If you have money to waste on wishes, you don’t need the wishes as badly as I need the money.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should be.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“The baby was almost certainly one year old. They knew this because of the red rosette pinned to her front, which read, 1!

"Or rather," said Charles Maxim, "the child is either one year old or she has come first in a competition. I believe babies are rarely keen participants in competitive sport. Shall we therefore assume it is the former?”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Sophie and Charles did not live neatly, but neatness, Sophie thought, was not necessary for happiness.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Governments can do both great and stupid things.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“You look as though you own a minimum of one pony.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Books crow-bar the world open for you.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“he had kindness where other people had lungs,”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“You shouldn't say what you don't mean”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Mothers are a thing you need, like air, she thought, and water. Even paper mothers were better than nothing; even imaginary ones. Mothers were a place to put down your heart. They were a resting stop to recover your breath.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Everybody needs secrets. Only be sure they are good ones.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Never ignore a possible”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“The dark-haired girl had the face of someone who had seen a lot, and wouldn’t mind punching most of it.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Muscles, she thought, are a thing worth having. They make the world easier to reach.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers