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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. David Almond _ Skellig

    Can love help a person to get better?' I asked.
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  4. David Almond _ Skellig

    Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?
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  5. David Almond _ Skellig

    Look at all the life in this," she said. "Every pip could become a tree, and every tree could bear another hundred fruits and every fruit could bear another hundred trees. And so on to infinity."I picked the picks from my tongue with my fingers."Just imagine," she said. "If every seed grew, there'd be no room in the world for anything but pomegranate trees."
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  6. David Almond _ Skellig

    Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical!
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  7. David Almond _ Skellig

    I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.
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  8. David Almond _ Skellig

    The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53
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  9. David Almond _ Skellig

    Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
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  10. David Almond _ Skellig

    Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
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  11. David Almond _ Skellig

    They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.
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  12. David Almond _ Skellig

    What are you?" I whispered.He shrugged again."Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.
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