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Top 10 Hilary McKay Quotes (2025 Update)

Hilary McKay Quote: “How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!”

1. “How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.”

2. “Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “Don’t call me darling. I’m a driving instructor!”

3. “Don’t call me darling. I’m a driving instructor!”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.”

4. “The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “There were not rules, only consequences.”

5. “There were not rules, only consequences.”

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Hilary McKay Quote: “Brain Juice was a recipe invented by Eve years before, when she had had to stay awake all day to look after Caddy and Indigo and Saffron, and all night to take care of the fragile and impermanent baby Rose. It was Coca-Cola with a great deal of instant coffee stirred into it. It was black and frothy and gritty, and it tasted like a primitive, medieval poison, but it banished sleep like magic.”

6. “Brain Juice was a recipe invented by Eve years before, when she had had to stay awake all day to look after Caddy and Indigo and Saffron, and all night to take care of the fragile and impermanent baby Rose. It was Coca-Cola with a great deal of instant coffee stirred into it. It was black and frothy and gritty, and it tasted like a primitive, medieval poison, but it banished sleep like magic.”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “Darling Daddy, This is Rose. The shed needs new wires now it has blown up. Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they will do for Mummy. Instead of you. Love, Rose.”

7. “Darling Daddy, This is Rose. The shed needs new wires now it has blown up. Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they will do for Mummy. Instead of you. Love, Rose.”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “Michael allowed himself to look at Caddy for the first time since she had climbed into the car. It was a moment that he always put off for as long as possible because his concentration was never quite the same afterwards.”

8. “Michael allowed himself to look at Caddy for the first time since she had climbed into the car. It was a moment that he always put off for as long as possible because his concentration was never quite the same afterwards.”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “This was school, and everything he’d feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.”

9. “This was school, and everything he’d feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “Gems and jewels and sparkly things. Perfumes and powders and rouges and ribbons. Waltzes, polkas and polonaises. And princes for partners, And most of all, they liked satin dancing shoes.”

10. “Gems and jewels and sparkly things. Perfumes and powders and rouges and ribbons. Waltzes, polkas and polonaises. And princes for partners, And most of all, they liked satin dancing shoes.”

— Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay Quote: “Off with our nightgowns, and on with the silks and taffetas! Velvet and damask and lace like foam! Buttoned gloves, coral beads, pearl rings, diamond bracelets! Perfumes, powders, gilt tiaras and satin dancing shoes!”

11. “Off with our nightgowns, and on with the silks and taffetas! Velvet and damask and lace like foam! Buttoned gloves, coral beads, pearl rings, diamond bracelets! Perfumes, powders, gilt tiaras and satin dancing shoes!”

— Hilary McKay

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