The Tightrope Walkers Quotes

“You must live in peace,” he told us. “We are only in this world for a short period of vivid and wonderful waking in an eternity of dreamless dark.”
― David Almond, The Tightrope Walkers

“There’s nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you’re different, and you’ll be grown and gone afore I know.” He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. “And this is hardly a place that’ll draw you back,” he said.”
― David Almond, The Tightrope Walkers

“I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then.”
― David Almond, The Tightrope Walkers