Quotes from Heather Vogel Frederick

She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian.

there is hope in maybe. Maybe. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

Robin Hood just called, he wants Sherwood Forest back.

Friends can never be too early

Of course, Zach Nortan could show up at school in a garbage bag and still look great.

Why is it that girls think boys will notice them if they're loud anyway.

You need your beauty sleep for tomorrow" she tells us "don't stay up too late talking" We ignore her of course.The whole point of a sleepover is to stay up too late talking.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possesion of a pashon for fashon, must be in want of an audiance!

Change is the nature of life, Cassidy. Some of it's good, like new babies being born and children growing up and leaving home and all the new adventures that both of those things bring. And sometimes change is more difficult - like when your dad died. But it's nothing to fear. Good or bad, when we rise up to meet it, change can make us stronger. It's what moved us farther along down the road ahead.

I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, and so tidy. Unlike real life, which is often a mess.

And as we round the bend toward Ivy Cottage, he tugs my braid just the way he always has ever since I was six, and then he reaches down and takes my hand. Maybe sometimes dreams really do come true.

Every house should have a turret

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Math is "maths," an elevator is a "lift," a truck is a "lorry," a flashlight is a "torch," and "crisps" are what they call potato chips, while "chips" over here means French fries. Just as riding the double-decker buses thrills me, I get a thrill out of hearing people talk.

Like a kettle boiling over, the room foamed with laughter.

A community is like a family," she told him, "and every family has a few odd ducks. The important thing to remember is that they're still family.

Friendship is where the best stories begin.

There's always more to the story, Catriona," She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories.

Papa was right, after all. A ship's crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.

Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don't need to know what lies ahead. For now it's enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it's enough to be home.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Would I want to know the ending to my own story? No. I want the adventure that comes with finding out.

Aunt Anne's lips quirked up in a smile. "Life is not a neat equation to be solved," she said. "It's messy and wild and unpredictable. That's the heartbreak of it, but that's also the glory of it.

But Aunt Anne has encouraged me to continue. In many regards, life itself is a voyage, she says. We never know where its winds and currents will carry us, she says, or what adventures lie ahead, and surely it's worth keeping record of this journey as well.