Begin, End, Begin Quotes

“I don’t know if I can put it into words just yet, this feeling like something’s ending and I have to be close to it.”
― Danielle Binks, Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

“We’re underground here — almost the whole colony is underground, safely shielded because radiation is not your friend. Every angle is calculated, every line efficient.
I think my parents wish they could plan me just as carefully, no part of me without a purpose, no part of me wasted. Maximum return for their efforts.”
― Amie Kaufman, Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

“And I suddenly feel like Pinocchio after he’s been swallowed; dome roof with curved steel beams like a whale’s ribs, the moon and Milky Way right there at the yawning shutter of its mouth.”
― Danielle Binks, Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

“Yes,’ I say. ‘It’s my first actual day of high school ever. I moved from the country. I was home-schooled via distance ed before now.’
‘Incredible.’ He shakes my free hand, while lying in that peculiar position. ‘You’ve managed to evade formal education for a signifcant period of your life. Congratulations and well done.’
‘Are you taking the piss?’
‘Good God, no.”
― Ellie Marney, Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

“Books are family. Books are community.”
― Danielle Binks , Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

“We stop at the door. I’m still smiling.
‘Well, bye,’ Noah says.
‘Don’t call us! We’ll call you!’ I say to Noah. And I shoot the air
with cowboy guns. Noah blinks.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

“… Farrell Kafji, who complained loudly that he had landed in the middle of a seventeenth-century field. ‘And fields then are exactly like fields right now!’ he shouted. ‘I could’ve gone down to Forsyth Park if I wanted to see a field!”
― Jaclyn Moriarty , Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

“The first day she rocked up to school she was wearing a massive brown rosary, hanging around her neck outside her school uniform jumper with a swinging cross at the bottom. Her dad probably made her wear it. “Hey yo, pimping for Christ!” I called out, and she turned as red as the sacred heart, bless.”
― Alice Pung , Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology

“She has dirt on me before I’m dirty.”
― Will Kostakis, Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology