Johnny and the Bomb Quotes

″ Suddenly now isn’t the safe place Johnny once thought it was as he finds himself caught up more and more with then ...”

“Johnny Maxwell and his friends are transported back to 1941′s version of their home town. Can he prevent or change the effects of a bombing he knows occurred?

“The soldier saw a wizened little woman wearing what looked like a party dress with layers of other clothes on top, and a woolly hat with a bobble on it. She was pushing a wire cart on wheels. It had a metal label on it.”

“A terrible monster pulled itself over the top of the cart and spat at Johnny. It was white, but with bits of brown and black as well. It was scrawny. It had three and a half legs but only one ear.”

“Anyway,′ said Yo-less, ‘if you changed things, maybe you’d end up not going back in time, and there you would be, back in time. I mean, except you never went in the first place, so you wouldn’t be able to come back on account of not having gone.”

“Somehow she holds the key to different times, different eras - including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. ”

“There was a shopping cart lying on its side just inside the alley, but that wasn’t unusual. Herds of shopping carts roamed the streets of Blackbury. ”

“It’s May 21 1941, thought Johnny. It’s war. Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley ...as long as it’s not the kiss of life. ”

″...huh. Schoolteachers?′ why couldn’t they be like they were supposed to be and just chuck things at you if you weren’t paying attention? Instead they all seemed to have been worrying about him and sending notes home and getting him to see a specialist.”

“But there’s more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of dubious black bags. ”