Michael Morpurgo Quotes

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

Secrets are lies by another name.