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1. "We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust." ~ David Almond
2. "We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.We let the stars shine into us." ~ David Almond
3. "Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep." ~ David Almond
4. "Truth and dreams are always getting muddled. --Mina" ~ David Almond
5. "There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it." ~ David Almond
6. "Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing." ~ David Almond
7. "I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either." ~ David Almond
8. "The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul." ~ David Almond
9. "What is is?'‘I don't know. I don't even know if it's true or if it's a dream.'‘That's alright. Truth and Dreams are always getting muddled." ~ David Almond
10. "In the end she just said..... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!" ~ David Almond
11. "And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!" ~ David Almond
12. "Time's Flying," said Dad. He Smiled. He pointed to the air. "There it is, flying past! Catch it!" And he jumped, and caught Time in his hands, and showed it to Lizzie. She took it from him, and threw it up again."There it goes," she called. "Bye-bye. Bye-bye, Time!" ~ David Almond
13. "The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53" ~ David Almond
14. "My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two." ~ David Almond
15. "It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units." ~ David Almond
16. "I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything." ~ David Almond
17. "I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence." ~ David Almond
18. "The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me." ~ David Almond

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Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya."
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