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Author: David Almond
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  1. David Almond _ Counting Stars

    It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of.
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  2. David Almond _ Kit's Wilderness

    Look at the earth and you think it's solid," he said. "But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A labyrinth.
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  3. David Almond _ My Name Is Mina

    Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.I turn my face towards it and I laugh.Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad.I laugh again.Some people think that she's already mad, I think.
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  4. David Almond _ My Name Is Mina

    This might be heaven!We might be living in heaven right now! And we might be the angels!
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  5. David Almond _ Skellig

    She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid themselves away. Spring came when she was released and made her slow way up to the world again. The world became brighter and bolder in order to welcome her back. It began to be filled with warmth and light. The animals dared to wake, they dared to have their young. Plants dared to send out buds and shoots. Life dared to come back.
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  6. David Almond _ My Name Is Mina

    We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.
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  7. David Almond _ My Name Is Mina

    Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.
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  8. David Almond _ My Name Is Mina

    We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.We let the stars shine into us.
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  9. David Almond _ My Name Is Mina

    Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.
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    I said, 'Do you know what shoulder blades are for?'She giggled.'Do you not even know that?' she said

  11. David Almond _ Kit's Wilderness

    This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.
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  12. David Almond _ Skellig

    What is is?''I don't know. I don't even know if it's true or if it's a dream.''That's alright. Truth and Dreams are always getting muddled.
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