“All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“It was the right and responsible thing to do, so they put it off until later.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“Rubbish," Max said. "Anyone can put on clumpy boots and pierce themselves silly. A truly dangerous person would be someone you'd never even look at twice.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“Then she probably would have waved back," Max said. "And it might be a he."
"Ha! Not likely," Lucia said. "Didn't you notice them?"
"Them what?" Max asked.
"Her... you know. She has breasts, Max! What do you think that is on her chest?"
"I think it's a pair of crossed arms," Max said.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“Give that man a Pixy Stix," Haddie said.
"A what?" Lucia asked.
"Hold on." She left then returned a moment later with a handful of colorful straws, one of which she threw at Max like a dart. He caught it in midair. That impressed Haddie and she tossed him another, just to see if he could do it again. He fumbled that one.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“Then Lucia said, "So what do we do now?"
"Nothing," Otto said. "Things will go on as just they always have.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
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“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”
― Matthew Desmond, quote from Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“14 The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the •One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
― quote from HCSB: Holman Christian Standard Bible
“I've never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it's almost never true altruism.”
― Donald J. Trump, quote from Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Beyond a thin veil of space stretched Existence, the frailest and most imbalanced reality of the cosmos. No one was really sure why it was imbalanced, but some believed it had something to do with the general alcohol consumption per capita.”
― Louise Blackwick, quote from The Weaver of Odds
“I had thought that I would never be able to grow tired of loving, but one night I woke to an absence of love and felt no torture: it was the absence of this tortute that truly scared me, that tortured me”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
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