“Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“Watch TV or something." That's what the note says.
So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“It's about 65 degrees, so it feels like when the air conditioner is up on high. I can bear it, so I'm going for a walk. Today. Right now. In the sunshine. Because I can.
Because I want to. Because I'm not going to just sit around and wait for stuff to happen anymore. I'm still me, and I have a life. It's a weird life, but it's still mine.
It's still mine.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“And then I see what she means. Because I did have to tell her, just like she had to tell me all of this. I had to trust her. Sometimes you have to tell someone else what it's like. Because if you don't, you'll go nuts.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“We both hang up, but it's like there's still a connection. I can feel it.
And it feels good.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“Only once. She called, asked could we send her two thousand dollars—two thousand more than the four she already stole when she left.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“Aha. The mom doesn’t know. She’s fishing. This next part has to be just right, or I’m blacklisted by the mother and hated by the daughter. The first would be an inconvenience; the second would be a tragedy.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“There's a strength in the way she carries herself, but she never seems to relax, never lets down her guard.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“and he sees me seeing him see me. Anyway,”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
Andrew Clements
Born place: in Camden, New Jersey, The United States
Born date January 1, 1949
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“Was die Moralisten das Böse nannten, war in Wirklichkeit die Lebensregel.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, quote from Shosha
“If you let words go buzzing out of your mouth like bees, she always told me, they will come back and sting you.”
― Susan Fletcher, quote from Shadow Spinner
“Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.”
― Daniel Mendelsohn, quote from The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
“She lay on her back, her belly sticking up like a mountain on top of her little frame, and Jack couldn’t keep his hands off of it. While there was a time he couldn’t keep his hands off the rest of her—and she had no doubt they would be there again before long—right now it was the antics of his baby within her that occupied him thoroughly. He would let go a loud bellow when her entire abdomen shifted, caving in on one side and protruding enormously on the other. And he especially liked when it appeared a foot was sliding in a large lump up one side. She could actually doze while he occupied himself with her pregnancy. It brought to her mind what he was going to look like rolling a ball on the floor with their baby girl, bouncing her on his knee, twirling her around over his head. “We”
― Robyn Carr, quote from Shelter Mountain
“You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.”
― Lauren Beukes, quote from Zoo City
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