Nancy Farmer Quotes

I am she who lifts the mountainsWhen she goes to hunt,Who wears mamba for a headbandAnd a lion for a belt.Beware!I swallow elephants wholeAnd pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns,I drink up rivers to get at the hippos.Let them hear my words!Nhamo is comingAnd her hunger is great.I am she who tosses treesInstead of spears.The ostrich is my pillowAnd the elephant is my footstool!I am NhamoWho makes the river my highwayAnd sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

~ Nancy Farmer

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

~ Nancy Farmer

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

~ Nancy Farmer

Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch.What happened? Matt asked, gasping.I went from one person to the next, trying to wake them up, but they were all dead, wrote Daft Donald.

~ Nancy Farmer

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

~ Nancy Farmer

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

~ Nancy Farmer

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

~ Nancy Farmer

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

~ Nancy Farmer

Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!

~ Nancy Farmer

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

~ Nancy Farmer

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

~ Nancy Farmer