Top 60 Suzy Davies Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Each evening the night swallowed the sun and gave the raven the sun’s energy. He stored this power in his wings, tinged with the blue of Alaskan skies.”

— Suzy Davies

2. “Language makes us human; the heart knows. Memories abide in the body. They live on in the walls of our houses and in our objects. They are the sentiments which endure and sustain us in the infinite chambers of our hearts. Our hearts remember. Our hearts have this language. Our hearts sing.”

— Suzy Davies

3. “Reading an author’s Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience.”

— Suzy Davies

4. “A good children’s book is a conversation children and their parents share and talk about.”

— Suzy Davies

5. “It is winter, and very cold. There are icicles against the glass, and frost. I am tracing a pattern, before it melts. Before it fades, and is lost for good, like memories.”

— Suzy Davies

6. “I can see the caravanserai, like a mirage in the distance. The heat hums. I thought I saw water. What would you have on these trade winds for your comfort?”

— Suzy Davies

7. “Passion is creativity on fire.”

— Suzy Davies

8. “The light of the Moon reminds us that when we share the light of others, we shine in our own unique way.”

— Suzy Davies

9. “I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book.” – Suzy Davies, on “Johari’s Window.”

— Suzy Davies

10. “Our lives are woven together like these threads yet the beauty is fragile.”

— Suzy Davies

11. “The song was a sea-shanty, and Snugs loved that kind of song. The music had an accordion, and the tune reminded him of the ship, and the songs Captain LightOwler played, when he was off duty, about pirates and the baddies on the sea.”

— Suzy Davies

12. “When first I set eyes on The Isle of Wight Polar Bear, my world was filled, in that instant, with the magic and wonder of childhood – Suzy Davies, Author, “Snugs The Snow Bear.”

— Suzy Davies

13. “Books are a portable kind of time travel. We go back as well as forward when we read them. When we come back into the now, after being immersed in worlds previously unknown to us, we find ourselves, transformed. Touched by their magic, nothing we ever perceived beforehand remains quite the same.”

— Suzy Davies

14. “So little Moon Pig put her snout into the soft dandelion head, which was round, and glowing, just like the moon. She blew and blew...”

— Suzy Davies

15. “The landscape is bathed in the honeyed light of morning. Sometimes the memory of winter comes again. And my days are colored reveries of you, my nights sensuous.”

— Suzy Davies

16. “A book is a living thing. It is a bird; it has a voice. The pages of a book are wings. Books have heartbeats. When readers read they feel them; they listen.”

— Suzy Davies

17. “In some real life situations there is something of the Fairy Tale. Sometimes, we forget, that magic is there for the making, and the makers are ourselves. Sometimes, it is our enemies who spur us on. For a challenge is nothing without striving. We admire a hero who earns Good Fortune, who strives to be a better person, who acts in the interests of others against dark forces that would bring them down. In Fairy Tales, the ultimate winners are good and true.”

— Suzy Davies

18. “The trees are bedecked with snow, the air is perfumed; how sweet, how dark the sultry fragrance. Forever hypnotising, always haunting. I want to inhale the fragrance of your skin, drink from your open mouth.”

— Suzy Davies

19. “I love Fairy Tales that depict the dance of light and dark. For in the dark there is a flicker of brightness, of Wisdom and of Hope.”

— Suzy Davies

20. “Readers will read into a book something of themselves. There is never just one book.”

— Suzy Davies

21. “She hands me an ornament of The Virgin Mary. “Pray to the Holy Mary, Mother of God!” I notice she has a gold chain round her neck. It has the holy cross and a shamrock.”

— Suzy Davies

22. “Far, far away, in a place known as Alaska, darkness was beginning to fall. A man was walking across the vast wilderness. He made slow progress. His dog pulled on the leash as if she knew they were almost there. They were headed for Anchorage. The dog, a fur ball of energy, kept her nose to the ground. She moved fast as if something was driving her forward, some kind of reward or prize.”

— Suzy Davies

23. “Trust is the reciprocal experience, knowledge and understanding of another that enables them to feel safe whether they are present or absent, each person knowing that neither will betray mutual faith, friendship and loyalty, which endures through the most challenging of circumstances.”

— Suzy Davies

24. “Good writers always have a strong sense of who they are and who they are not. Like actors, their boundaries are strong, and fluid. They have a deep understanding of the human condition, and an empathy that is not so diffuse that it is diluted.”

— Suzy Davies

25. “His lone withdrawing figure blended anonymously with the darkness, Dr Raven’s quick, light steps becoming gradually distant, drowned out by the clicking staccato rush of trains, the steady drip of rainwater, and the clock of a nearby church as it heralded the hour.”

— Suzy Davies

26. “In the dusky blue of Autumn, I’ll see your face, when fireworks are flying high, high above. The stars in the sky are notes to a musical score. I want to dance with you. There are a thousand colors in your voice.”

— Suzy Davies

27. “Whose ideas breathe through me? Am I a thief? Do I dream my own dreams?”

— Suzy Davies

28. “Fairy tales are a kind of life coaching; they show us the obstacles we face, give us wands and potions and magick spells, wicked witches, animal familiars, castles, godmothers, giants, woods with fairy queens, and elves. But we know, deep down, in the Land before Words, fairytales give us courage; we know this magic – we were given it at birth.”

— Suzy Davies

29. “Poems are the music of our childhoods.”

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30. “Good writing has vitality!”

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31. “Sir, I’ve known him ever since he was born! We’ve played snowball, and built snow-houses together, which are called igloos, and once, when one of Santa’s reindeer was sick on Christmas Eve, Snow Bear stepped in to help with the presents, and load them on the sleigh – he’s very kind, and clever, and strong, you know.”

— Suzy Davies

32. “What’s in a fairytale? Shadows and light, good and true, vile and ugly, frightening and comforting, heroes and heroines who know that belief in their own magic spurs them on. It is their own faith and courage as they reach for an unwritten Destiny that grants their deepest hopes and makes dreams, as if by magic, come true.”

— Suzy Davies

33. “How tranquil it was, wading ankle-deep in flowers, pink snow, cascading, tumbling down, tingeing the earthen pathways.”

— Suzy Davies

34. “I was climbing high, high up Pen Dinas Head among the sparkling yellow gorse, sea birds and white heather, with the oily sheep huddled together against the wind.”

— Suzy Davies

35. “I don’t like books which give me the answers. I love books that give me the questions.”

— Suzy Davies

36. “It’s great to know that others can feel shy like me, too,” smiled Luna, “and that I can make them laugh with my funny Moon Crater Face.”

— Suzy Davies

37. “The undercarraige kissed the snowy earth. Shadowy snow scenes, with frosted trees that shivered, flashed past the side windows. Powedery snow floated on the air. They glided to a standstill. The bird had landed.”

— Suzy Davies

38. “You need one book for all the lives you could have dreamed of, and lived, but never had.”

— Suzy Davies

39. “This cape had become Stella. Bold, Bright, Daring, Red! It was a girl in a story-book. Stella was a star on the red carpet, in Hollywood. What a bright smile she had! That photograph! That trophy! And that red hair that flowed like a mane in the wind!”

— Suzy Davies

40. “Libraries are like caves. They are places of transformation. There are secrets hidden within those walls.”

— Suzy Davies

41. “Our eyes met. I kissed her soft face, and down the stairs they descended. Their voices blended into an echo, a murmur. I ventured barefoot into the bedroom. The dark gown lay crumpled upon the bed.”

— Suzy Davies

42. “Music teaches us about lyricism in writing, a delicate turn of phrase, selectiveness with words, rhythmic passages. Most of all, music, like good writing, touches our emotions with cadences that slip in like a subtle visitor, familiar and known before.”

— Suzy Davies

43. “Writing is... creating tattoos which are invisible, under your skin.”

— Suzy Davies

44. “He was just about to turn the light off, when there was a heavy, “Tappety, tap, tappety, tap,” on the door. It was the kind of loud sound that could only be made with a hoof. A moose’s hoof, that is.”

— Suzy Davies

45. “I want to sling a stone, a small rock into a pool, see it ripple. I want to shake a tree, create a small storm...”

— Suzy Davies

46. “It was back home that The Northern Lights cast these wondrous rainbows in the snow, and where Snugs used to play tag with the huge curtain of shining light that ran, even faster than the wind, across the vast snow-covered landscape.”

— Suzy Davies

47. “There were women who navigated in canoes, holding their children, the beguiling wind blowing soft sleet kisses, raining upon their skins.”

— Suzy Davies

48. “Stella knew that no matter how far a person traveled, there would always be places that held undiscovered treasure; the secrets of people and their hearts.”

— Suzy Davies

49. “Luna drifted off to sleep, hearing Ms Cardinal’s song in the distance. Her eyelashes fluttered, and her body made little movements. She was dreaming of Maria cuddling her lovingly. What a happy dream that was!”

— Suzy Davies

50. “Snow always takes me back to places of my childhood. I think it’s because it makes everything look so bright, new and sparkling. It creates an atmosphere of excitement and wonder.”

— Suzy Davies