Quotes from Louise Fitzhugh

The world went on the same after all. The same things happened every morning. So what if they did not like her? She would go on the same.

At first she didn't listen to it and then she heard what she was feeling. She said it several times to hear it better.

There's as many ways to live as people.

Well," Mrs. Plumber was saying decisively into the telephone, "I have discovered the secret of life." Wow, thought Harriet. "My dear, it's very simple, you just take to your bed. You just refuse to leave it for anything or anybody.

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

People who love work, love life.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

People who love work, love life.

Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER.

Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT.

Life is a struggle and a good spy goes in there and fights.

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

I WONDER IF WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT SOMEBODY THEY DREAM ABOUT YOU.

This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.

Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Life is very strange.