Quotes from Jeanne DuPrau

Church of the Fiery Vision.

She looked powerful, Lina thought, even though she was very short.

The Photograph and the Journal

And you, Mackie," said the doctor. "It's been a long time.

He found his aunt in the kitchen, and he grabbed her by the waist of her pants

Please just let us choose and get it over with.

She found her very pale and very still, all the life gone out of her.

Father: And when anger is the boss, you get- Doon: Unintended consequences.

She could not understand why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors.

Finally, Trogg pointed to the hourglass, which was draining its last grains of sand into its bottom half. "Bedtime!" he cried. Minny awoke with a start, and everyone got up and shuffled off to the apartment.

Then there might be dead people.

You turned a crazy old guy into an enemy in less than two minutes. YOU did it. You've done it over and over, I've seen you: you approach people like an enemy and bam!, they turn into one, whether they were to begin with or now -Maddy

A bird feeder hung from the porch roof, but there were no seeds in it. The curtains in all the windows were closed.

Just look at it!

Two of the guards looked up at us and lost their balance and fell into the water. They grabbed hold of the loaded boats, which made the boats tip and dump their load into the river. The other guards and Looper knelt down and tried to reach them, but they were pulled in, too. In the midst of all this, the mayor jumped onto the one boat that was still upright, but as soon as he hit it, it turned over and he plunged into the river.

Somehow she had done wrong by trying to do right.

The thought made him suddenly furious. He sat up, grabbed a shoe heel out of the bucket at his feet, and hurled it with all his might. It arrived at the front door just as the door opened. Doon heard a hard thwack and a loud "Ouch!" at the same moment. Then he saw the long, lean, tired-looking face of his father in the doorway.

went to school. On the last day of their final year, which was called Assignment Day, they were given jobs to do.

My world is the heavens, both by day and by night.

Grown people did their work, and younger people, until they reached the age of twelve, went to school. On the last day of their final year, which was called Assignment Day, they were given jobs to do. The graduating students occupied Room

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

Her face, which had never seemed especially remarkable, looked almost beautiful, because she looked so happy.

Every time she thought about him, she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

The main thing," she said, "is this: we will refuse to be each other's enemies. We will renounce violence, which is so easy to start but so hard to control. We will build a place where we can all live in peace. If we hold to that, everything is possible.