Quotes from Jeanne DuPrau

You should THINK about what's the right thing to do. Not just take someone's word for it -Grover

Love is love, seems to me. As long as what you love isn't armed robbery, or bombing airplanes, or kidnapping little children. -Crystal

she loved exploring every nook and cranny

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.

Full to the brim with hope and love and joy, she watched the little light bulb shining like a promise in the night.

Nickie didn't like listening to him because his voice always sounded too smooth.

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?

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.

Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is.

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?

But that was what made things so exciting--nothing was ever how you expected it to be.

Lina had never seen anyone so disorganized as the doctor. She peeked into the medicine room once when the doctor was out and was amazed at the clutter in there-shelves and cupboards and tables piled with stuff in bottles and stuff in boxes and stuff in jars, all higgledy-piggledy. How Dr. Hester found anything she couldn't imagine.

Don't worry," said Maddy. "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 plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more.

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.

When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences.

What are those?

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

city was lost in darkness now, and anyone left there was lost, too.

She flicked off the TV.

That's the city I see in my dreams, Poppy. It isn't like Ember at all. The sky is light and the buildings are tall and sort of sparkle. (Lina)

Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity

We were underground', she said. 'Not just the pipeworks, everything!

What you get is what you get. What you DO with what you get, though...that's more the point, wouldn't you say -Doon's Father