Chris Wooding Quotes

• Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

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  Mistake, Fall, Patterns

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• Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

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  Contentment

  Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.10, Scholastic UK

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• Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

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  Practice, Theory, Seems

  Chris Wooding (2010). “The Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay”, p.218, Hachette UK

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• Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” Fleet said. “Some people have many tales. Sometimes they are linked into one big tale, sometimes they are utterly distinct. Most people do not have one at all.

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  Two, People, Three

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• Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

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  Taken, Forever, Way

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• Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.

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  Real, Book, Journey

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• How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

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  Way

  Chris Wooding (2017). “Tales of the Ketty Jay: Retribution Falls, The Black Lung Captain, The Iron Jackal, The Ace of Skulls”, p.687, Hachette UK

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• Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

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  Soldier, Firsts, Stage

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• Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

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  Imagination, Wonder

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• Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

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  Looks, Born, Right Place

  Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.10, Scholastic UK

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• But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

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  Choices, Mind, One Day

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• We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.

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  Race, People, Imagination

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• Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

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  Names, Once Upon A Time, Poison

  Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.206, Scholastic UK

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• I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.

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  Drama, Poison, Said

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• On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

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  Reflection, Tables, Said

  Chris Wooding (2011). “The Iron Jackal: A Tale of the Ketty Jay”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

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  Third Person, Cheated, Thirds

  "The Iron Jackal". Book by Chris Wooding, 2011.

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• Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.

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  Children, Sarcasm, Names

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