Richard Mayhew Quotes

“You’re in trouble already. Everything you do, everything you say, everything you hear, just makes it worse. You had better pray you haven’t stepped too far in.”

“You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”

“You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”

“Richard had been awed by Jessica, who was beautiful, and often quite funny, and was certainly going somewhere.”

″‘You got a long way to go...,’ she said, puzzled. ‘London,’ Richard told her. ‘Not just London...’ The old woman paused. ‘Not any London I know. It started to rain, then, softly. ‘I’m sorry,’ she said. ‘It starts with doors.‘”

“Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”