Explore Book Quotes

A Pennsylvania Amish boy wonders if the fox raised on his farm misses other foxes and gets his answer when the animal leaves long enough to have a litter.

″ ‘Meat and drink on the same tree!’ cried Peterkin; ‘washing in the sea, lodging on the ground, -and all for nothing! My dear boys, we’re set up for life; it must be the ancient Paradise, -hurrah!’ ”

“He’ll tell you, perhaps . . . if you’re willing to pay.”

“But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”

“I do consider you a friend, Charlie.”

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: “Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.”

“Taste the berries and forget about falling off the cliff”

“I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.”

“I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.”

“I am mad with joy. –At least I think it’s joy. Strangers have come, and it’s a whole new game.”