Top 59 Jeanne DuPrau Quotes
#1. He found his aunt in the kitchen, and he grabbed her by the waist of her pants
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#2. And you, Mackie," said the doctor. "It's been a long time.
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#3. Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad
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#4. Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.
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#5. A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening ...
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#6. Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea.
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#7. People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.
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#9. The rhythm of his steps said, Happy to be here, happy to be here. Rays of sunlight shot between the clouds, making spots of light like polka dots on the ground.
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#10. It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.
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#11. Lina looked out at the lighted streets spreading away in every direction, the streets she knew so well. She loved her city, worn out and crumbling though it was.
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#12. When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
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#13. You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.
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#14. People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had.
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#15. Signs of craziness, like Hoyt McCoy dancing around naked? Disgusting filthiness, like a smelly outhouse or rat-swarmed garbage?
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#16. It's for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.
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#17. Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity
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#18. Nickie didn't like listening to him because his voice always sounded too smooth.
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#19. The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.
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#20. A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know.
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#21. Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.
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#22. She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart
was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.
City of Ember
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#23. The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard
especially if a lot of people prayed at once
maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?
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#24. Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.
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#25. All these words, written so long ago, seemed to say to her, Remember us. We were here. We were real.
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#26. How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"
Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.
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#27. Blotches of blood looked more like a soupspoon than an R. Several people told him angrily to be quiet.
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#28. Maybe there was no happily ever after [ ... ] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.
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#29. Lina liked going to the market plaza. It was always alive with people and animals, and the market had things she'd never seen before-sandals made of old truck tires, hats and baskets woven of straw.
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#30. Pressed up against the rear wall, half hidden by shirts and dresses dangling from hangers, was a tall, thin girl with wide, terrified eyes. Her hands were wrapped around the muzzle of a small, wildly squirming dog.
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#32. Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.
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#33. Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.
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#34. The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice
what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and
that's always useful.
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#35. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.
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#36. Remember the city, the city remember
Where treasure is hidden under the ground
The city, the city, always remember
That's where the treasure will be found.
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#37. Clearly not all these people who said that God spoke to them heard the same thing. All the fighting nations said God was on their side. How could God be on everyone's side?
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#38. Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him.
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#39. Down the stone steps to the windswept beach, her raven tresses flowing out behind her. She scanned the empty sands, and when she saw no sign of Blaine, a great cry of anguish escaped her lips. She could not live without him! She would sooner die!
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#40. She loved to run. She could run forever. And she loved exploring every nook and cranny of the city, which was what a messenger got to do.
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#41. What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.
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#43. There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.
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#44. This world was huge. There must be another place in it for the people of Ember.
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#45. Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?
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#46. Her face, which had never seemed especially remarkable, looked almost beautiful, because she looked so happy.
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#47. Unintended consequences, he thought miserably.
He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up
and took over.
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#48. I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.
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#49. Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
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#50. People find a way through just about anything.
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#51. What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison ...
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#52. Sure", he said. He started moving the bits around. "Lets see. This looks like it must say . . . and so then this would go here . . . and this . . . " He paused and looked up at her. "Haven't we done this before?
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#53. Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army
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#54. The people of Ember were just as grubby as the people of Sparks; everyone looked more or less the same.
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#55. She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written.
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#56. It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.
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#58. Full to the brim with hope and love and joy, she watched the little light bulb shining like a promise in the night.
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#59. What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?
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