The Explorer Quotes

“But make sure the risks you take aren’t taken to impress someone else.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“Look after the things you love, or else you don’t deserve to love anything,”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“I was afraid that my heart had simply...run out. But it transpires that the heart has its own petrol station, its own coal, it's own soap. It will renew, so use it hugely.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“And what is love at first sight but recognition?”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“When you get home, tell them how large the world is, and how green. And tell them that the beauty of the world makes demands on you. They will need reminding. If you believe the world is small and tawdry, it is easier to be so yourself. But the world is so tall and so beautiful a place.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“People do not tell you that love is so terrifying. It is less like rainbows and butterflies and more like jumping on to the back of a moving dragon.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“The birds here make the birds in England look like they’re dressed for a job interview.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“I just liked the idea that there's still things that we don't know. At school, it's the same thing, every day. I liked that it might be all right to believe in large, mad, wild things.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“There's a lot writing about love at first sight. And what is love at first sight but recognition? It's instant knowledge: that this is a person who will make your heart larger - a lover, a child. The same applies to places.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“Resist the urge to arrange your fears and angers at their most becoming angles.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“He’d intended it to sound reassuring, but instead his voice had landed somewhere between “desperate lying” and “stern aunt on a deathbed.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“Sit down, boy!’ said the explorer. ‘All of you. Do you not know what God gave you arses for? Here – drink”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“Sit down, boy!’ said the explorer. ‘All of you. Do you not know what God gave you arses for? Here – drink this.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“Look after the things you love or else you don’t deserve to love anything,”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“chewed”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

“coaxing”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer