Ellen Raskin Quotes

#1. Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.

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#2. I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

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#3. Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

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#4. Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.

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#5. Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.

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#6. Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down

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#7. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

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#8. The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

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#9. Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

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#10. Angela Wexler, person

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#11. I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.

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#12. She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.

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#13. Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.

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#14. Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

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#15. Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker.
That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly.

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#16. Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation."
"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

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#17. You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.

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#18. I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

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#19. The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

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#20. Hi Sandy, I won!

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