Best 19 quotes of Lesley Howarth on MyQuotes

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.

I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.

Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.

Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it.

Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason not to be happy.

Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.

Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. His life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better.

His knowingness made him cold.

I sort of felt -- frightened, you know? Frightened of what? Being alone. Alone is scary. I know what you mean. Plus, I'm scared of myself.

It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?

Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.

That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have?

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?

You're special, not strange. You should be glad.