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
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Born place: in Putnam, Connecticut, The United States
Born date April 16, 1890
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“It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in that inexplicable darkness. Where there was no sound anywhere save only the wind. After a while he sat in the road. He took off his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from The Crossing
“Lokeij whistled. “Make the king’s warriors vanish if
they come. . . what a deceitful turtledove you are.”
Aly smiled at the sky. “Oh, don’t,”she replied in the
tones of a flirtatious court lady. “Stop, I insist. Your
flattery makes me blush.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Trickster's Choice
“I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Storm Born
“It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, ---a factor in a problem. - Sherlock Holmes”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Sign of Four
“Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from An Echo in the Darkness
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