73 Quotes by Jeanne Birdsall

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    The moonlight had turned the gardens into a fairyland, magnificent and mysterious.

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    Woof,” he said sadly. “Poor Hound,” said Batty. “Poor Hound, indeed.” Mr. Penderwick was not sympathetic. “Even he should know not to eat towels.

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    Will each of my daughters be delivered to me, one at a time, as from the briny deep?

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    It’s not right to shoot someone because they’re not intelligent.

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    Tommy was nowhere in sight, and though she waited for a few minutes, he didn’t reappear.

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    I did know a girl in middle school who made hand puppets from her boyfriends’ socks,” said Aunt Claire. “I don’t know if she talked to the puppets, but she did make the puppets talk to her.

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    Some secrets buried away in boxes are peacefully forgotten, just as we hope they’ll be. But some refuse to stay in their boxes, popping out at the worst possible times. And then there are those... that linger and fester, gnawing away from the inside out.

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    No, you stupid idiot, there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re perfect.

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