Quotes from Carol Ryrie Brink

Life is just a lot of everyday adventures.

Life is just a lot of everyday adventures.

How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

What a lot of fun you could have... if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!

I don't think a person is mature until he understands what a wonderful world he lives in and that a lifetime isn't long enough to get to know it.

although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.

the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day.

How far I've come! I'm the same girl, yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person to another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult to tell you about England, because there all men are not free to pursue their own lives in their own ways. Some men live like princes, while other men must beg for the very crusts that keep them alive.

What a lot of fun you could have, Minty discovered, if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!

Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now

But every redhead's temper has its limitations.

But the delight of wading that clear mountain water, scrambling over rocks, or sitting on a boulder in the sunshine and gazing with dreaming eyes into the brown pebbled pools below, was enough joy without feeling the tug of a trout on the end of the line. Often we could see them in the sun-flecked depths below, quiet as shadows except for the occasional waving of a fin.

Riding around on Minnie's shoulder But