Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Lesley Howarth

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British author Lesley Howarth.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Lesley Howarth

Lesley Howarth is a British author of children's and young adult fiction. For the novel Maphead, published by Walker Books in 1994, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.

I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble.
Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it.
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. — © Lesley Howarth
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.
I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.
The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.
Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.
That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have?
I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.
Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.
Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.
It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?
Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.
Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.
Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.
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