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Top 15 Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes (2025 Update)

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “What people don’t understand, they laugh at.”

1. “What people don’t understand, they laugh at.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!”

2. “Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It’s just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they’ll never find their way out.”

3. “There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It’s just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they’ll never find their way out.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “Being irretrievably damned had its advantages:.”

4. “Being irretrievably damned had its advantages:.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “The world is hollow. It’s a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.”

5. “The world is hollow. It’s a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “I like people. I like watching them. It’s just that I’d prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.”

6. “I like people. I like watching them. It’s just that I’d prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “I hate clowns. You can’t see what they’re thinking.”

7. “I hate clowns. You can’t see what they’re thinking.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “As far as the eye could see, black rocks broke through the waves and tore the surf to shreds of white.”

8. “As far as the eye could see, black rocks broke through the waves and tore the surf to shreds of white.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “The gods never meant you to live forever, so why spoil they life they did give you? Is a rainbow any less beautiful because it’s short-lived? Or because you can’t grasp hold of it? Consider, man. Perhaps it is beautiful expressly because of that.”

9. “The gods never meant you to live forever, so why spoil they life they did give you? Is a rainbow any less beautiful because it’s short-lived? Or because you can’t grasp hold of it? Consider, man. Perhaps it is beautiful expressly because of that.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “The moment a child answers the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ he is halfway to being an adult.”

10. “The moment a child answers the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ he is halfway to being an adult.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “Lord bless us! I never would have believed it! said the friar, startled out of his usual cynicism. ‘An honest man!”

11. “Lord bless us! I never would have believed it! said the friar, startled out of his usual cynicism. ‘An honest man!”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “The friar organized a hunt. But the Alchemist was long gone – lost among the townspeople like one bad penny melting into a puddle of lead.”

12. “The friar organized a hunt. But the Alchemist was long gone – lost among the townspeople like one bad penny melting into a puddle of lead.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “Further and further afield he travelled. Taking ship, he sailed to a hot and passionate country where gypsy women dressed in scarlet, and their dark skin sweated as they danced tarantellas under a tambourine moon.”

13. “Further and further afield he travelled. Taking ship, he sailed to a hot and passionate country where gypsy women dressed in scarlet, and their dark skin sweated as they danced tarantellas under a tambourine moon.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “But I refuse to say. Because I love him, and you’d give anything, wouldn’t you? You’d give anything for someone you love not to die alone and in scalding agony?”

14. “But I refuse to say. Because I love him, and you’d give anything, wouldn’t you? You’d give anything for someone you love not to die alone and in scalding agony?”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean Quote: “He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn’t have. He is everything I needed and couldn’t find in real life. Of course he is. That’s why I invented him.”

15. “He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn’t have. He is everything I needed and couldn’t find in real life. Of course he is. That’s why I invented him.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

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