Strange the Dreamer Favourite Quotes

“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable,” she pleaded. “Something beautiful and full of monsters.” “Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.”

“It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”

“I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you’ll let me be in your story.”

“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”

“And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”

“The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around”

“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.”

“Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It’s just that when they do them, they call it justice.”

“She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.”

“He’d sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.”

“He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. His nose was broken by a falling volume of fairy tales his first day on the job, and that, they said, told you everything you needed to know about strange Lazlo Strange: head in the clouds, world of his own, fairy tales and fancy.”

 

 

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