Raven Summer Quotes

“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.”
― David Almond, Jackdaw Summer

“Live an adventure. Live like you’re in a story.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It’s easy to threaten it. It’s easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It’s much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“All of us can do what we like.”
“No we can’t. You’re stupid if you think so.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“If you can imagine doing something, then you can do it.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“Well, well,” she murmurs as I back away.
She makes a rectangle with her index fingers and thumbs and looks at my skin through it.
“You’re right,” she says. “The boy’s a living work of art.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“Words are too easy,” he says.
He opens his book. “What looks like truth and sounds like truth might be nothing but a dream, nothing but a story I wish had happened.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“She points at my chest.
“And much more interestingly, what’s that?”
“Blood,” I say.
She gets her camera out.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“I think of him dreaming of being married to Kim and of tractors and harvesters and conferences in nice country hotels while my dreams are filled with war, with snakes, with bloody wounds, disaster and death. I keep feeling blood trickling over my skin.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer

“He narrows his eyes.
“Is this true?” He sighs. “It is, isn’t it? That’s all I need.”
― David Almond, Raven Summer