Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

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.

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

Secrets are lies by another name.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

But look after yourself - there will be great dangers on the way. Remember, the right road is never the easy road.

Magic obeys only the heart of the one who uses it. Your magic would always be a kind magic, because you are kind, I can tell. Please stay and help us.

cause when there's life there's still hope

When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.

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 I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she come. She think you dead for ever. But she see you in her mind. Now as I speak maybe she see you in her mind. You always there. I know. I have son too. I have Michiya. He always in my head. Like Kimi. They dead for sure, but they in my head. They in my head forever.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

...that we should look out of the window, choose a star, and make a last wish before we went to sleep, and she told us we should wish the best, not just for each of ourselves, but more for each other, because we were all the best of friends.

You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to.

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.