The Boxcar Children Quotes

“Then she saw something ahead of her in the woods. It was an old boxcar. ‘What a good home that will be in the rain!’ she thought.”

“The children’s grandfather wanted them to like his house. He wanted them to live with him all the time. So he had made over some of the rooms just for them.”

“He gave them four dollars and all the cherries they could carry. ‘That is too much,’ said Henry.”

″‘Can’t I see them?’ begged Mr. Alden. ‘I won’t tell them who I am.‘”

“Then a man asked, ‘What is your name, boy?’ Henry did not know what to say. He did not want to tell his name. So he answered, ‘Henry James.’ Now this was Henry’s name, but it was not all of his name.”

″‘What a good place this is!’ said Violet. ‘It is just like a warm little house with one room.‘”

“I called after him and asked him if I could cut the grass. So I cut the grass, and he said, ‘Good for you. Do you want to work every day?’ And he said he had never had a boy who cut it as well as I did.‘”

“Poor Henry was so surprised he almost fell over! That kind man his grandfather.”

″‘He is our father’s father, and he didn’t like our mother,’ said Henry. ‘So we don’t think he would like us. We are afraid he would be mean to us.‘”

″‘Thank you for the surprise, Grandfather,’ said Violet. ‘We’ll never go away from you again.’ ‘I hope not, my dear,’ said Mr. Alden. ‘We’ll all live happily ever after.’ And so they did.”