Chris Priestley Quotes

But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating.

Why is it childish to want something better? asked Frank sulkily. It's like pretending to be content is the same as actually being content. I'm not going to pre tent. - Frank

For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more.

The sea is a world no one truly knows...It is constantly changing, constantly moving. It is a living thing, never ageing, but never the same.

There are no fearless men in a battle. Only a liar would say different.

But she was no guardian angel. She was not trying to help me at all. She had been trying to claim me as she had claimed the lives of my fellow passengers.
She was the thing that remained forever unseen in my visions of her tales. She lurked near the bodies of those whose whose lives were so cruelly taken. She was there always, waiting.

In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that I had been allowed more opportunities to sin, for this seemed a rather excessive judgement on what had been a frankly dull and blameless life. But I was not dead. I could see that now.

Some people give off a scent of danger that the wise know and avoid and that the foolish are drawn to.

I would sometimes see them among the trees, as I did this particular day. They did not come near and never said a word. They stood silently among the shadows.

Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.

She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human.

Age has more to do with experience than the number of years you may have walked the earth.

What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.

Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished.

If ghosts exist, why are there not more? We should be tripping over them. If you can trip over a ghost.

Does something amuse you?' asked Uncle Montague.
'I was merely reminding myself, Uncle, that I am getting too old to be so easily frightened by stories.'
'Really?' said Uncle Montague with a worrying degree of doubt in his voice. 'You think there is an age at which you might become immune to fear?

Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse?

I don't want to be rich. I'm not interested in money. Well, not money for the sake of it. I just want more life than Mother and Father want. Don't you ever want more? - Frank

Ideas come from all over the place – a lifetime of reading and watching films and TV helps of course. I play around with thoughts of what creeps me out and hope that it will creep my reader out too.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

Because soldiers aren't really brave, they follow orders. Soldiers do as they told. They're not heroes. There are no real heroes, son. It depends on whose telling the story.

There are many kinds of bravery. It takes as much courage to bring a child into the world as it does to cross swords or sail into the teeth of a storm - more, maybe.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.