Explore Book Quotes

“Swish, click. Before you knew it, she’d be back. Click, swish, “Checks,” swish, click. It never stopped, even at night; it was our lullaby. It was our metronome, our pulse. It was our lives measured out in doses slightly larger than those famous coffee spoons. Soup spoons, maybe? Dented tin spoons brimming with what should have been sweet but was sour, gone off, gone by without our savoring it: our lives.”

“Though her father seeks to protect her from all unpleasant things, a young princess is intrigued by the voice of the wind that tells her of worlds beyond the palace walls.”

“Nothing makes you grow up quicker than discovering your father is not the man you think he is.”

“You children made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough.”

“This officer, given maximum power, bore minimum responsibility.”

“For a time, life goes on normally and, eventually, Alice grows up. She goes to work in a library where people call her Miss Rumphius and she helps them find books they’re looking for.”

“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts.”

“I have stared at a book pretending I couldn’t hear what was going on around me, too. If people think you can’t hear them, they talk as if you couldn’t. You can hear some pretty neat stuff that way.”

“It’s the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.”

“It is a very moving and interesting novel based on factual events that occurred during the 1840′s in the United States of America.”