Top 80 Katherine Rundell Quotes (2024 Update)
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Katherine Rundell Quote: “He’d intended it to sound reassuring, but instead his voice had landed somewhere between “desperate lying” and “stern aunt on a deathbed.”

51. “He’d intended it to sound reassuring, but instead his voice had landed somewhere between “desperate lying” and “stern aunt on a deathbed.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “And what is love at first sight but recognition?”

52. “And what is love at first sight but recognition?”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Her finger was still bleeding, so she drew a flower behind the woman’s ear, and coloured it red.”

53. “Her finger was still bleeding, so she drew a flower behind the woman’s ear, and coloured it red.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “When you get home, tell them how large the world is, and how green. And tell them that the beauty of the world makes demands on you. They will need reminding. If you believe the world is small and tawdry, it is easier to be so yourself. But the world is so tall and so beautiful a place.”

54. “When you get home, tell them how large the world is, and how green. And tell them that the beauty of the world makes demands on you. They will need reminding. If you believe the world is small and tawdry, it is easier to be so yourself. But the world is so tall and so beautiful a place.”

— Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell Quote: “The birds here make the birds in England look like they’re dressed for a job interview.”

55. “The birds here make the birds in England look like they’re dressed for a job interview.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Resist the urge to arrange your fears and angers at their most becoming angles.”

56. “Resist the urge to arrange your fears and angers at their most becoming angles.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “One, from his face, appeared to be farting.”

57. “One, from his face, appeared to be farting.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “I know these sorts of people. They’re not men. They’re mustaches with idiots attached.”

58. “I know these sorts of people. They’re not men. They’re mustaches with idiots attached.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Mothers are a thing you need, like air, she thought, and water. Even paper mothers were better than nothing; even imaginary ones. Mothers were a place to put down your heart. They were a resting stop to recover your breath.”

59. “Mothers are a thing you need, like air, she thought, and water. Even paper mothers were better than nothing; even imaginary ones. Mothers were a place to put down your heart. They were a resting stop to recover your breath.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “I still find libraries astonishing; I still think they speak to our better instincts. The library remains one of the few places in the world where you don’t have to buy anything, know anyone or believe anything to enter in.”

60. “I still find libraries astonishing; I still think they speak to our better instincts. The library remains one of the few places in the world where you don’t have to buy anything, know anyone or believe anything to enter in.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Why didn’t she keep looking?” “My darling, because she is an adult.” Sophie ducked behind her hair. Her face was hot and tight and angry. “That’s not a reason.” “It is, my love. Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.”

61. “Why didn’t she keep looking?” “My darling, because she is an adult.” Sophie ducked behind her hair. Her face was hot and tight and angry. “That’s not a reason.” “It is, my love. Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Muscles, she thought, are a thing worth having. They make the world easier to reach.”

62. “Muscles, she thought, are a thing worth having. They make the world easier to reach.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Sophie realized she’d been holding her breath. She gulped in air. It was surprising what a difference oxygen made to bravery.”

63. “Sophie realized she’d been holding her breath. She gulped in air. It was surprising what a difference oxygen made to bravery.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “What? But that’s crazy!’ ‘Governments often are.’ ‘I’m only just twelve! I’m practically still eleven.’ ‘Nonetheless, they intend to come.’ ‘Who is they? Who sent it?”

64. “What? But that’s crazy!’ ‘Governments often are.’ ‘I’m only just twelve! I’m practically still eleven.’ ‘Nonetheless, they intend to come.’ ‘Who is they? Who sent it?”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Children are the toughest creatures on the planet, They endure.”

65. “Children are the toughest creatures on the planet, They endure.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “To throw the knife would be death... She wanted nothing to do with death – nothing to do with finality, with endings, with the dark of it. She hated the man more than she hated any living thing, but he was living.”

66. “To throw the knife would be death... She wanted nothing to do with death – nothing to do with finality, with endings, with the dark of it. She hated the man more than she hated any living thing, but he was living.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “It’s best not to get too hungry if you can avoid it. If you get hungry enough, you will start feeling that your bad ideas are your good idea. If you get truly famished, you’ll start feeling like a French philosopher, and that’s unwise.”

67. “It’s best not to get too hungry if you can avoid it. If you get hungry enough, you will start feeling that your bad ideas are your good idea. If you get truly famished, you’ll start feeling like a French philosopher, and that’s unwise.”

— Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell Quote: “Don’t apologise. Your shoes are excellent; you sound like a tap dancer.”

68. “Don’t apologise. Your shoes are excellent; you sound like a tap dancer.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Children’s books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place.”

69. “Children’s books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Hard work always hurts somewhere.”

70. “Hard work always hurts somewhere.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Children’s books today do still have the ghost of their educative beginnings, but what they are trying to teach us has changed. Children’s novels, to me, spoke, and still speak, of hope.”

71. “Children’s books today do still have the ghost of their educative beginnings, but what they are trying to teach us has changed. Children’s novels, to me, spoke, and still speak, of hope.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “I wish for someone to be with. I wish to be un-alone.” He hoped shooting stars did not care about grammar.”

72. “I wish for someone to be with. I wish to be un-alone.” He hoped shooting stars did not care about grammar.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Ask for it hot enough to burn your pipes, or it won’t be drinkable.”

73. “Ask for it hot enough to burn your pipes, or it won’t be drinkable.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “For reading not to become something that we do for anxious self-optimisation – for it not to be akin to buying high-spec trainers and a gym membership each January – all texts must be open, to all people.”

74. “For reading not to become something that we do for anxious self-optimisation – for it not to be akin to buying high-spec trainers and a gym membership each January – all texts must be open, to all people.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “God could arrest you for this,’ said Sergei. ‘This is better than murder.”

75. “God could arrest you for this,’ said Sergei. ‘This is better than murder.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Children’s fiction needs to widen and change again, as it has widened and transformed before. Recently a study of children’s fiction in the UK showed that only four per cent of books published in a year had any characters who were black, Asian or minority ethnic, but that 31.2 per cent of school children are from minority ethnic origins.”

76. “Children’s fiction needs to widen and change again, as it has widened and transformed before. Recently a study of children’s fiction in the UK showed that only four per cent of books published in a year had any characters who were black, Asian or minority ethnic, but that 31.2 per cent of school children are from minority ethnic origins.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “But even airplanes heading toward Belgium can work magic, if you have luck and love and Christmas on your side.”

77. “But even airplanes heading toward Belgium can work magic, if you have luck and love and Christmas on your side.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “People do not tell you that love is so terrifying. It is less like rainbows and butterflies and more like jumping on to the back of a moving dragon.”

78. “People do not tell you that love is so terrifying. It is less like rainbows and butterflies and more like jumping on to the back of a moving dragon.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “I was afraid that my heart had simply... run out. But it transpires that the heart has its own petrol station, its own coal, it’s own soap. It will renew, so use it hugely.”

79. “I was afraid that my heart had simply... run out. But it transpires that the heart has its own petrol station, its own coal, it’s own soap. It will renew, so use it hugely.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “He told her about the small officers’ library, too, from which he sometimes stole books. ‘They’re the only good thing about the whole place. I sleep with a dictionary under my pillow, sometimes. Just to remind me that there are more words in the world than ‘Come here, boy.”

80. “He told her about the small officers’ library, too, from which he sometimes stole books. ‘They’re the only good thing about the whole place. I sleep with a dictionary under my pillow, sometimes. Just to remind me that there are more words in the world than ‘Come here, boy.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “The difficulties with the rule of readerly progression are many: one is that, if one followed the same pattern into adulthood, turning always to books of obvious increasing complexity, you’d be left ultimately with nothing but Finnegans Wake and the complete works of the French deconstructionist theorist Jacques Derrida to cheer your deathbed.”

81. “The difficulties with the rule of readerly progression are many: one is that, if one followed the same pattern into adulthood, turning always to books of obvious increasing complexity, you’d be left ultimately with nothing but Finnegans Wake and the complete works of the French deconstructionist theorist Jacques Derrida to cheer your deathbed.”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “The snow gossiped and hinted at storms and birds. It told a new story every morning. Few grinned and sniffed the sharpness of the air. It’s the most talkative weather there is...”

82. “The snow gossiped and hinted at storms and birds. It told a new story every morning. Few grinned and sniffed the sharpness of the air. It’s the most talkative weather there is...”

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Katherine Rundell Quote: “Everybody needs secrets. Only be sure they are good ones.”

83. “Everybody needs secrets. Only be sure they are good ones.”

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