BOB Quotes Cards 2023-4 Flashcards
“Tea time is always at 4:00 pm.”
The View from Saturday (p 77)
“Common sense told her it was probably nothing more than a trick of the peculiar light that seemed to exist in this part of the world, but it didn’t stop her from checking it out.”
The Last Bear
“And as with every addiction, there’s always some withdrawal.”
Suee and the Strange White Light (p 110)
“Even if you don’t take it, I will have to stay and you will have to leave. It won’t change anything.”
The Night Diary
“Please deliver your letter by hand. You know where to reach me.”
When You Reach Me
“Don’t panic, I’ll be your best man.”
The View from Saturday (p 15)
“Do you even want to be friends at all?”
When You Reach Me (p 33)
“I don’t know what happened to my mom, but the garden definitely didn’t help her.”
Moongarden
“Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.”
The View from Saturday
“I don’t like Newton seems like there is something dark behind its gleaming facade.”
Suee and the Strange White Light
“Forget it. I want to be alone!”
When You Reach Me (p130)
“It was the kind of look that friendships could be forged upon.”
The Last Bear (p 85)
“Just answer the question, do you have a dog?”
The View from Saturday
“This is the story I need you to tell.”
When You Reach Me (p180)
“Would you like to be a quizmaster today?”
The View from Saturday (p143)
“She isn’t here, no matter what stupid stories you’ve made up in your head.
The Night Diary (p )
“You were the one that taught me that the ocean is a world of mystery that a man can never hope to fully understand.”
The Last Bear (p 259)
“You’re going to win. I know it.”
When You Reach Me (p 183)
“The seeds helped her discover who she was.”
Moongarden (p )
“What is the meaning of the word calligraphy and from what language does it derive?”
The View From Saturday (p 4)
“If a problem gets too big for you to handle, just step back and stop everything you are doing.:
Suee and the Strange White Light (p 103)
“Well, it’s simple to love someone,” she said. “But it’s hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”
When You Reach Me
“The best gift of all is…the very best….the very best gift of all is…to give up your gift.”
The View from Saturday
“I thought about the old Papa, the one who tickled us. Had Papa changed that much or had we just gotten older?”
The Night Diary
“He stood on his two hind legs, rearing up like a brilliant, white, stallion in the sky?”
The Last Bear
“I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper.”
The View from Saturday
“Yes…. in the closet, and she absolutely cannot be disturbed.”
When You Reach Me (p 155)
“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.”
When You Reach Me
“Because when you don’t, you always get the same result. Nothing. But if you try, you never know what sort of magic could happen.”
Moongarden (p 110)
“How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence. ”
The View from Saturday
“I have come to help you, see I brought Dad’s knife.”
The Last Bear (p 69)
“I wish I knew what this place was for. There’s got to be a reason it’s so well hidden.”
Moongarden (p 55)
“Two things a man never grows tired of watching: fire and water. Always the same, yet always changing.”
A SIngle Shard
“When you divide a people, they take sides.”
The Night Diary (p 45)
“I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people’s feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o’clock.”
The View from Saturday
“It’s been one surprise after another the past few days.”
Suee and the Strange White Light ( p 266)
“…common sense is just a habit of thought. It’s how we’re used to thinking about things but a lot of the time it just gets in the way”
When You Reach Me
“Everything here was quiet, untouched, like a photograph she had inadvertently stepped into.”
The Last Bear
“Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides. ”
The View from Saturday
“Some things are in the blood. All the money in the world can’t change a person’s blood.”
When You Reach Me (p )
“Did you ever want a friend so badly that you didn’t care what happened to you?”
The Night Diary (p 225)
“And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.”
When You Reach Me
