Hollowpox Quotes

“We don't ignore bigotry, Jack. That's how cowardly bigots turn into brave bigots.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Who cares what some numpty thinks?

The thing about numpties, Mog, is that they can always find plenty of other numpties to believe their numpty nonsense. You know what they say: you're never more than six feet away from a numpty.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Only need a spark,” she said with a shrug. “Small sparks make big fires.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Why do you keep apologizing?” asked President Wintersea. “Dreadful habit for girls to get into, you must break it at once.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Burn brightly, Morrigan Crow.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“I don’t believe I’ve ever been quite so angry in all my life. I think I could bottle this rage and sell it to—I don’t know, competitive heavyweight boxers or something.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“What, they’re letting people inside Proudfoot House?” said Morrigan. She could immediately think of at least twelve reasons why that was a terrible idea. “Are they mad? There are dragons in there! And explosions. And… Hawthorne, sometimes”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Did you just see that bloke with a pitchfork?” Hawthorne’s voice had jumped up half an octave, his eyes grown wide. “Who even owns a pitchfork? I don’t even know what a pitchfork is for!”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“I thought Elder Quinn might smack him in the jaw, but he's not half stirring when he gets on a roll, is he? He should join an amateur theatrical society."
He IS an amateur theatrical society, Morrigan thought.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Perhaps your destiny, your lifelong role in the Wundrous Society, is to bring light to the world, in whatever form that might take--music, or art, or politics, or making a truly excellent leek and potato soup--to balance out the dark. To distract people from it. To keep Nevermoor from being consumed by it.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“The thing about numpties, Mog, is that they can always find plenty of other numpties to believe their numpty nonsense. You know what they say: You’re never more than six feet away from a numpty.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Very ... shiny. Jack winced a little and snapped the eye patch back into place. Potentially dangerous levels of cheer.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Morrigan turned to her friends, nonplussed. ‘What’s wrong with being respectful?’
‘Obviously takes more than two brain cells,’ Jack muttered.
‘Yeah, and they’ve only got one between them,’ added Cadence with a snort of laughter.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“It was the CAT!”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“There was a man in the hall.
He turned to face her, desperate and wild-eyed, his white face ghostlike. With his shirt half untucked and hair disheveled, he was almost unrecognizable. But when he spoke, Morrigan could feel the lightning crackle of his panic through the Gossamer.
“Don’t let them open the border!”
It was Squall.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Honestly, Mog, I'd rather be dead than hollow.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“since coming to Nevermoor, she’d seen some extraordinary things.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“It’s like covering up the fact that you have a box of spiders by telling everyone you also have a box of… acid-spouting land dolphins.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“But Ezra Squall can’t get in.” “No, he can’t,” said Jupiter. “Because our borders specifically keep Squall out. They’re impenetrable to him, but not necessarily to ordinary people in the Republic. It’s just that most ordinary people in the Republic have no idea the Free State exists, and if they do, they don’t know where it is or how to get here. But, as I say, there are ways inside.” “Such as through a clockface in a giant mechanical spider piloted by a madman,” said Morrigan, recalling her own strange journey to Nevermoor, two and a half years ago. Jack laughed at that as he dropped into an armchair next to hers, swinging his legs over the side.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Cadence muttered to Morrigan, “I liked her better when she couldn’t remember who I was”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Morrigan smiled and took a deep breath.
Last day of the autumn term.
She’d made it.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Taking a long, deep breath, Morrigan grinned. she felt energised and buoyant and - for the first time in a long time - somehow certain that there was a way out of this mess Nevermoor was in.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow: Nevermoor 3

“He lunged forward, arms outstretched as if to grab her by the shoulders, but of course his hands fell straight through her. The back of Morrigan's neck prickled. There were things about Squall that frightened her, but nothing so much as this. Nothing he'd ever said or done was as terrifying to Morrigan... as seeing him so frightened. What scared you this much, if you were the evillest man who ever lived?”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox. La traque de Morrigane Crow: Nevermoor 3

“But if they believed the money really was on the table, they must believe Morrigan truly could be a Wundersmith, and everyone knew Wundersmiths were dangerous... which made her wonder why they dared to come anywhere near her.
"Folks'll do anything for money like that," Kedgeree said when she'd asked him about it. "Greed trumps fear.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Oh, you mean that GIANT FLOOF?”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“She may be a Wundersmith, but truly from today onward, she is our Wundersmith”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Masquerade,’ Squall said simply. By the”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“He should join an amateur theatrical society.” He is an amateur theatrical society, Morrigan thought,”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“Yes, shush. Maud said the Wintersea Party might help if there was a squid crow po.” “Quid pro quo?” “Right, one of those.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

“The thing about numpties, Mog, is that they can always find plenty of other numpties to believe their numpty nonsense. You know what they say: You’re never more than six feet away from a numpty.” “I think that’s spiders.”
― Jessica Townsend, Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow