Suzy Davies

Quotes

• “Sir, I’ve known him ever since he was born! We’ve played snowball, and built snow-houses together, which are called iglo...”
• “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 no...”
• “His lone withdrawing figure blended anonymously with the darkness, Dr Raven's quick, light steps becoming gradually dist...”
• “The piper never knew we were watchers.....Sounds echoed - sounds of a Scottish love song. They echoed through the silenc...”
• “The sun came out, warm on my back through my white school blouse.the streets were familiar, past the old tannery, the Je...”
• “The song was a sea-shanty, and Snugs loved that kind of song. The music had an accordion, and the tune reminded him of t...”
• “It was back home that The Northern Lights cast these wondrous rainbows in the snow, and where Snugs used to play tag wit...”
• “On his departure, he glanced swiftly back as he passed the furtive gaze of the gloved footmen.He was swept away in the m...”
• “He was just about to turn the light off, when there was a heavy, “Tappety, tap, tappety, tap,” on the door. It was the k...”
• “There are bald patches, like Daddy's head, on the pebble-dash, higher up than last year. I have picked off the stones. (...”
• “How insightful of Finland to devise a topic-based curriculum in their schools! This means that dicreet "subjects" that a...”
• “Oh my boy, you are so huggable and snuggable, is that why they callyou Snugs Bear?”“I’ve simply always been Snugs,” Snug...”
• “Our eyes met. I kissed her soft face, and down the stairs they descended. Their voices blended into an echo, a murmur. I...”
• “The sea is rushing in now as unconsciousness does.I can see a chord, hear gospel songs as we hoist the sails.The sails a...”
• “When first I set eyes on The Isle of Wight Polar Bear, my world was filled, in that instant, with the magic and wonder o...”
• “A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which becom...”
• “It is winter, and very cold. There are icicles against the glass, and frost. I am tracing a pattern, before it melts. Be...”
• “I was an unwilling passenger leaving the Big Country. I would miss the mountains and the waterfalls,the treks on broad h...”
• “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...”
• “The landscape is bathed in the honeyed light of morning. Sometimes the memory of winter comes again. And my days are col...”
• “I was climbing high, high up Pen Dinas Head among the sparkling yellow gorse, sea birds and white heather, with the oily...”
• “I can see the caravanserai, like a mirage in the distance. The heat hums. I thought I saw water. What would you have on ...”
• “Reading an author's Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the r...”
• “There were women who navigated in canoes, holding their children, the beguiling wind blowing soft sleet kisses, raining ...”
• “Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination,ignite in the brilliance of our minds,and are wrought in the work of our hand...”
• “Whose ideas breathe through me? Am I a thief? Do I dream my own dreams?”
• “Writing is...creating tattoos which are invisible, under your skin”
• “Writing which flows is more like play than work!”