“There was a quality about him – fragile, but at the same time steely and undaunted – that managed to awaken your sense of pity without irritating you at the same time. In a world where no kid can really afford to be helpless, where most of us risk our lives in a matter of course, that was quite a hard balance to achieve.”

“There was a quality about him – fragile, but at the same time steely and undaunted – that managed to awaken your sense of pity without irritating you at the same time. In a world where no kid can really afford to be helpless, where most of us risk our lives in a matter of course, that was quite a hard balance to achieve.”

— Jonathan Stroud