Margaret Mahy Quotes

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

Fear can give you urgent wings.