Quotes by : Margaret Mahy

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer!....

It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.

Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you....

Something is going to happen, Laura thought. She was going to be kissed. On one side of a kiss was childhood,....

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

Somewhere int he flesh of the earth the dreadful earthquake shuddered, the tide walked to and fro on....

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world;....

If people fainted from too much thinking I’d scarcely ever be conscious,” Tabitha began at once.....

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often....

Your Barney?” Cole’s eyebrows shot up. “Yours?”“He’s mine all right!” Claire replied. “Everyone....