32 Quotes by Sara Pennypacker


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    Do you think anyone in the history of this world ever set out to fight for the wrong side?

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    We all own a beast called anger. It can serve us: many good things come of anger at bad things; many unjust things are made just. But first we all have to figure out how to civilize it.

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    The new joy of speed, the urgency of coming night, the hope of reunion with his boy – these things transformed him into something that shot like liquid fire between the trees. Something gravity couldn’t touched. Pax could have run forever.

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    So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? They’re the same thing, Peter said, the answer sudden and sure, although a surprise to him.

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    Your heart’s like any other muscle, Stella. You have to stretch it out when it cramps up” -Grandma.

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    I have twenty acres of trees to care for. And I’m a wood-carver. You thought they were weapons?” Peter.

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    I don’t mind any of the broken things. I like to figure out their stories.” -George.

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