Jackie French Quotes

Who was Hitler" demanded little Tracy
"He was this bloke in World War Two" explained Ben.

When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.

I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just read about them. I want my life.

Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

You get through bad things - I know, enough bad things have happened to me already. But I don't think getting through one bad time makes it any easier to deal with the next one. If anything, it's worse, because there is happiness to remember.

No women allowed.'
'I'm not a woman. I'm the boss.

A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.

Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to by blood but we've also got families that we acquire. And those too I think are pretty much part of my books.

With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well as happiness. Even the most blessed lives had both. She'd live them as they came.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people.

Morning: Slept.
Afternoon: Slept.
Evening: Ate grass.
Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring.
Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits.
Slept.

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays.

I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there is a conception that the things that you do quickly are not done well. I think that's probably one of the reasons I don't like the idea of prolific.

We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a book because it's good for us. We read because it is fun.

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.

A book can change the world ... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.