Gertrude Chandler Warner · 160 pages
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“One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“How they love the old boxcar!”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“While the mystery element is central to each of Miss Warner’s books, she never thought of them as strictly juvenile mysteries. She liked to stress the Aldens’ independence and resourcefulness and their solid New England devotion to using up and making do. The Aldens go about most of their adventures with as little adult supervision as possible—something else that delights young readers.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“Watch. He is her dog. She took the thorn out of his foot.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“Moore’s and stay, until the surprise comes.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“of the boxcar and was just right for a step.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“rolled the door shut, and then it really began to rain.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“top of those. Violet filled her arms with brush”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, quote from The Boxcar Children
“You mean something happened to him?” Her voice faded off into sort of a sad whisper, like a mortician asking for a down payment.”
― Raymond Chandler, quote from The Little Sister
“We have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live after that.”
― Bernard Malamud, quote from The Natural
“إن معظم من يحزنون لزوال الربيع يتأثرون كل التأثر لرؤية البراعم المتساقطة, كما شعرت عندما مشيت لآخر مرة في حديقتنا. إن لينيانغ ترى الاوراق فتدرك أن شبابها وجمالها عابران, ولكنها لاتدرك أن حياتها هشة أيضا”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“The ladies of each fraternal order are invited to submit squares for a special victory quilt to be signed by President Woodrow Wilson himself on his tour of the Midwest.”
― Clare Vanderpool, quote from Moon Over Manifest
“The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..
the worst part is we can't say who is who”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
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