Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth Quotes

“You don’t have to have a home to get homesick. You just have to want one. The whole history of your wee planet is nothing but people looking for a home.”
― Frank Cottrell Boyce, Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth

“They thought he was a dog. If you say "dangerous dog," folk think you're talking about a dog that bites, not someone who hands out deadly weapons at children's parties.”
― Frank Cottrell Boyce, Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth

“Without even looking at me, he swiped the scissors out of his belt and flung them across the room. They flashed through the air and stuck, shivering, deep in the wood of the door, right next to my head. I held my breath. “I never miss.” He grinned. “Unless I mean to.”
― Frank Cottrell Boyce, Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth

“It’s like this. You go off on an adventure. Then you come home. Right? Well that’s what the universe is doing now. Ever since the Big Bang, it’s been heading off into the unknown on its adventure. But the day will come when it will all go back to the beginning. Everything will come home. Everything that was broken will be fixed. Everything that was forgotten will be remembered. It’ll be like the biggest reverse dynamite explosion ever. And then we’ll all be back together again and we’ll be home again.”
― Frank Cottrell Boyce, Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth