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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 235f09b | enjoying juice, milk, and a basketful of warm cranberry and banana muffins and sweet rolls, | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| afede25 | Benny said, "Oh, I can hardly wait to wash my hands! It has been two days since I've really washed them!" "Funny to hear you say that, Ben," said Henry. "I'm going to take a shower the first thing I do." -- | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 18c4849 | A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. | Adrienne Rich | ||
| a0b2179 | GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER discovered when she was teaching that many readers who like an exciting story could find no books that were both easy and fun to read. She decided to try to meet this need, and her first book, The Boxcar Children, quickly proved she had succeeded. Miss Warner drew on her own experiences to write the mystery. As a child she spent hours watching trains go by on the tracks opposite her family home. She often dreamed ab.. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| fa9f22e | give | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 38a657d | where they had come from. The baker's wife saw them first, as they stood looking in at the window of her store. The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| a1af571 | Two each," said Jessie. She gave them out. That is, she rolled two potatoes to each one. "Now let's put the canned milk in the water pail with some spring water." "What a dinner!" cried Benny. "I don't like canned milk when I'm home. But it tastes all right here." It was certainly queer not to have any dishes except a water pail and milk cans. But even as the wind kept on blowing and the rain kept on falling, everyone was very happy to have.. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 6348bfd | came | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 3544250 | What shall we do? Where shall we go?" thought Jessie. The wind was blowing more and more clouds across the sky, and the lightning was very near. She walked a little way into the woods, looking for a place to go out of the rain. "Where shall we go?" she thought again. Then she saw something ahead of her in the woods. It was an old boxcar. "What a good house that will be in the rain!" she thought." | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| aed4647 | companies | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 3531826 | Alice | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 01f1e52 | Do you think we could find any wampum here, Joe?" asked Henry." | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 867a6d5 | whistled | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| ccb91be | figurine | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 26dc2ba | The four children jumped up so quickly that Mr. Alden threw back his head and laughed. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| fb7d242 | Baker Brooks --can get dogs to follow him --said that selling stolen dogs is easy money --was around Dog Gone Good when Grayson was stolen --accused Roxanne of stealing Boxcar, then changed his mind "The third person" | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| e205041 | spy with my little eye something made of gold: So follow the clues both night and day; leave no stone unturned, the game's in play. "'Leave no stone unturned?" | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| ddf3f69 | Those two really tall buildings are the World Trade Center -- the Twin Towers. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 29149f8 | I want you to see the spring where the water comes from. Be careful of the coconuts. They may fall on your head. If you hear one coming from the trees, you must get out from under fast. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| d807d49 | We must be magnetic." "And attract adventures," | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 03b16be | She smiled politely at the woman, but the woman did not smile. She looked at Henry as he put his hand in his pocket for the money. She looked cross, but she sold him the bread. Jessie was looking around, too, and she saw a long red bench under each window of the bakery. The benches had flat red pillows on them. "Will you let us stay here for the night?" Jessie asked. "We could sleep on those benches, and tomorrow we would help you wash the .. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| b0b08a5 | Just as she said this, the children heard a horse and cart coming up the road. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| dc1e16c | Gargoyles | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 2bd3097 | Then the children could hear a man talking. It was the baker! | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| e29b39c | Mr. Farrier is acting weird, | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 05633ef | Benny saw someone peering through the trees. The person was very tall and dressed in a dark suit. That's odd, Benny thought. Why would someone be walking around in the woods behind the kennels? He started to wave, but as he lifted his arm, the person ducked behind a tree, as if he or she didn't want to be seen. "Benny!" called Henry. "Henry, there's someone -- " Benny began. "Come on!" Jessie cried. "Anna's first lesson is starting." Not wa.. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 4eabc3e | I have to say that what I know I know through making poems. | Adrienne Rich | ||
| a073132 | Storybook events come in threes. So, it seems, does Hell. | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 6dd5c3f | I adore complaining-- it calms the nerves | nerves whining | Franny Billingsley | |
| 9bbd2dd | Truth is irrelevant to the treading out of brain paths. | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 87590a0 | Death had no lips, but it was smiling. | Franny Billingsley | ||
| f243e93 | No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. | Adrienne Rich | ||
| 629c9b1 | I think about the Old Ones, that they have a past but no history. I think about the inevitability of death, and whether it's not that very inevitability that inspires us to take photographs and make scrapbooks and tell stories. That that's how we humans find our way to immortality. This is not a new thought; I've had such thoughts before. But I have a new thought now. That that's how we find our way toward meaning. Meaning. If you're going .. | Franny Billingsley Chime | ||
| f4fa347 | truth is entirely irrelevant to the treading out of brain path | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 83466ad | That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble. But | Franny Billingsley | ||
| a10aa7e | Wine and bread. This has always seemed rather ghoulish to me, as though one were smearing the threshold with Puree of Christ. "Thank" | Franny Billingsley | ||
| df3b83c | Anti-Semitism was so intrinsic as not to have a name. | Adrienne Rich | ||
| 316ee54 | what isn't named is often more permeating than what is | Adrienne Rich | ||
| 55065bf | The experience of motherhood was eventually to radicalize me. | Adrienne Rich | ||
| 84c2333 | At the right temperatures, geologic faults allow for movement, ductility, flow. Earthquakes happen when weaknesses cannot be expressed. "And communities which are rigid, which do not take into account the weak points of the community--people who are in difficulty--tend to be communities that do not evolve. When they do evolve, it's generally by a very strong commotion, a revolution." | Krista Tippett | ||
| 6120194 | God delights in beauty, Islam teaches at its core, and is beauty. Beauty is in creation, not destruction, and in balance. It is in the human intellect and the human heart and in their powers to apply sacred text towards creation and knowledge that edifies and enlivens. | Krista Tippett | ||
| 922cff1 | The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that. | attention awe beauty diversity enlightenment god grace humanity life life-force love mindfulness mystery on-being religion spirit wisdom wonder | Krista Tippett | |
| 278b762 | It's a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the margins, across human history, and it's happening there now. Seismic shifts in common life, as in geophysical reality, begin in spaces and cracks. | movements revolution | Krista Tippett | |
| b043b4d | This daunting and wondrous century is throwing open basic questions the twentieth century thought it had answered. Our questions are intimate and civilizational all at once--definitions of when life begins and when death happens; of the meaning of marriage and family and identity; of our relationship to the natural world; of our relationship to technology and our relationships through technology. The Internet in its infancy is upending the .. | Krista Tippett |