The Book of Stolen Dreams Quotes

“She had some inner quality, a contact with the mysteries of life that lay hidden beneath the certainties of science and road maps. It meant she sometimes got lost in the real world, of course, because her brain was somewhere else. She was, he thought, a bit of a poet, touched by magic.”
― David Farr, The Book of Stolen Dreams

“The Night Manager, starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston; his work on the long-running TV series Spooks; and his first feature film, Hanna—now a hugely successful series for Amazon Prime.”
― David Farr, The Book of Stolen Dreams

“There was a time when it would have been true and I wanted you to feel the fear, to understand what it was like in those dark and deadly days. When to read a book was to become an enemy of the state.”
― David Farr, The Book of Stolen Dreams

“Rachel was impressed by the calm efficiency of Laetitia’s uncle. She tried to understand how a man so apparently good could work for a man so palpably bad. Grown-ups are just strange, she thought. Something happens to them. Perhaps it’s to do with what Mother used to call “the moral compass.” Some lose it for a while. Some forever.”
― David Farr, The Book of Stolen Dreams

“He worked in a temple of words. Its official name was the North Brava Public Lending Library. But to Felix it was much more than that. It was another family, a family of thousands of precious leather-bound children, each to be cared for and loved and nurtured through its strange and difficult life.”
― David Farr, The Book of Stolen Dreams

“Oh, you’re shaking! Please take my blanket. It smells slightly of salad cream due to an unfortunate accident with a baguette earlier today.”
― David Farr, The Book of Stolen Dreams