“frantically. Where was his backpack? “Go!” said a guard, giving him a push. Jack went. Down they marched, down the long, dark hallway. Squinty, Annie, Mustache, Jack, and Red. Down a narrow, winding staircase. Jack heard Annie shouting at the guards. “Dummies! Meanies! We didn’t do anything!” The guards laughed. They didn’t take her seriously at all. At the bottom of the stairs was a big iron door with a bar across it. Squinty pushed the bar off the door. Then he shoved at the door. It creaked open. Jack and Annie were pushed into a cold, clammy room. The fiery torch lit the dungeon. There were chains hanging from the filthy walls. Water dripped from the ceiling, making puddles on the stone floor. It was”
― Mary Pope Osborne, quote from Magic Tree House: #1-4
“Jack. “It’s a picture of these woods!”
― Mary Pope Osborne, quote from Magic Tree House: #1-4
“castle. Let’s go see.” “Wait,” said Jack. He turned more pages of the book. “I want to see what’s really going on, Jack. Not what’s in the book,” said Annie. “But look at this!” said Jack. He pointed to a picture of a big party. Men were standing by the door, playing drums and horns. He read: Fanfares were played to announce different dishes in a feast. Feasts were held in the Great Hall. “You can look at the book. I’m going to the real feast,” said Annie. “Wait,” said Jack, studying the picture. It showed boys his age carrying trays of food. Whole pigs. Pies. Peacocks with all their feathers. Peacocks? Jack wrote:”
― Mary Pope Osborne, quote from Magic Tree House: #1-4
Mary Pope Osborne
Born place: in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, The United States
Born date May 20, 1949
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“La vanidad de este poeta se vio, pues, halagada por esta mujer como lo había sido por su madre, por su hermana y por David. Todos a su alrededor seguían levantando el pedestal imaginario en el que él se ponía. Mantenido en sus ambiciosas creencias por todo el mundo, tanto por sus amigos como por la rabia de sus enemigos, se movía en una atmósfera llena de espejismos. Las jóvenes imaginaciones son cómplices tan naturales de estas alabanzas e ideas, todo contribuye de tal modo a servir a un apuesto joven con futuro, que se hace necesaria más de una amarga y fría lección para disipar tales quimeras.”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from Lost Illusions
“Emotions somehow meant more when they were handwritten on precious scraps of paper and conveyed on slow trains running out of fuel.”
― Barbara Demick, quote from Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
“I guess not being ‘just like them’ is a crime.”
― Lisa De Jong, quote from When It Rains
“I’m sorry, the message said.
The theft was a violation of privacy. It was an unbelievable act of impudence and disrespect. Not only that, it was—baffling. He was murderous, incandescent with fury. He was older than sin and could not remember when he had last been in such a rage.
He looked at the paper again.
I’m sorry I had to take your penny. Here’s another to replace it.
Yep, that’s what it said.
One corner of his mouth twitched. He gave himself a deep shock when he burst into an explosive guffaw.”
― Thea Harrison, quote from Dragon Bound
“If we fell in love with people who were perfect for us, he said, then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.”
― Amor Towles, quote from Rules of Civility
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