Elizabeth George Speare Quotes

#1. There was something irresistible about popcorn.

Elizabeth George Speare

#2. No, I have not asked Jesus to join us. All I hope and long for now is that he will ask me to join him.

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#3. The demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

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#4. There is no escape if love is not there, Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.

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#5. She rolled over and stretched, blinking up at the blue sky. The tips of the long grasses swished gently in the breeze. The hot sun pressed down on her so that she felt hot and empty. Slowly, the meadow began to fulfill its promise.

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#6. The dress that hung close to her head, waiting for the first rays of the sun to light it into beauty, symbolized the wonder of the past few days.

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#7. Have you noticed her name?"
Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. "The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?"
"Oh, she's not named after Hannah. I hadn't gone ten miles down the river that day before I knew I'd left the real witch behind.

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#8. How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

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#9. We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to choose, not knowing. I have chosen Jesus.

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#10. I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.

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#11. Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten.

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#12. restrictive life. What Kit

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#13. All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

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#14. Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.

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#15. The two boys stood and looked at each other. There was no amusement and no scorn in Attean's eyes. How very strange, Matt thought. After all the brave deeds he had dreamed of doing to win this boy's respect, he had gained it at last by doing nothing, just by staying here and refusing to leave.

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#16. A man's first loyalty is to the soil he stands on.

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#17. She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

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#18. What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree ...

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#19. From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

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#20. The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

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#21. Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

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#22. If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day ... Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage.

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