29 Quotes by Ellen Raskin

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. – Jake Wexler.

Grace said,“Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation.” “An emergency Packers game in Green Bay,” Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game.

All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don’t have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that’s what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to get into medical school.

Read it out loud, dear,” Grace ordered, as Angela opened the card tied to the yellow-ribboned box. To the bride-to-be in the kitchen stuck, An asparagus cooker and lots of luck. from Cookie Barfspringer “Thank you,” Angela said, wondering which one was the Barfspringer. The next gift was an egg poacher. The box in pink ribbons contained another asparagus cooker. “I sure hope Doctor Deere likes asparagus,” someone remarked.

She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.

Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn’t.