73 Quotes by Jeanne Birdsall
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Jane circled the mansion, passing door after door, all too la-di-da for comfort.
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That was when he’d smiled, and after all that seriousness, his smile was a revelation, like a rainbow after a storm, like spring after winter, like dawn after the darkest night. She stopped, opened her notebook, and wrote that down. His smile was a revelation, like a rainbow after a storm, like spring after winter, like dawn after the darkest night. She read it out loud as she wrote.
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So excited her wings were quivering.
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This set off a series of additional questions from Batty, which Iantha gracefully took on, giving Rosalind the chance to slip away unnoticed. She crossed the street to the Geigers’ house, headed round to the back, and knocked on the kitchen door, just as she’d done a thousand times before.
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While in her heart Batty knew that Ginevra was a nice person, she sometimes couldn’t help wondering if nice people could also be show-offs.
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I do, too, understand. Rosalind wants to find creepy ladies for Daddy so we don’t have to worry about stepmothers.
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If you want to get out of that crib, stand up and be an American.
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Skye, no one except you believes in the possibility of Batty blowing up.
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Mrs. Tifton had cut off Jane’s ha-ha-ha before it even began. Lydia thought this was probably a good thing.
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