Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
6 quotes
"One day," she told us, "you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be."
"There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think."
"That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune."
"You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea."
"When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old."
"If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on."