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BOB Quotes Competition Flashcards

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“Three cousins…two continents…one haunting secret.”

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The Lost Year

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“There’s only probability now. How likely something is to occur, or how unlikely.”

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Matched

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“When my mom would come home from one of her research trips, my dad and I would make big signs.”

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The Lost Language

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“Good luck comes at a price. Bad luck is free.”

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I Must Betray You

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“And yet when I search through our family photos, I can see that I never wore glasses of any kind before that summer.”

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Tangerine

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“Talking isn’t a weakness.”

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The Whisperwicks

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“It would be like having a poem, a beautiful wild poem that no one else has, and burning it.”

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Matched

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“I’m sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?”

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Alice in Wonderland

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“So you are in the minority,” I say. “The seven percent who don’t show any nerves at all.”

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Matched

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“You don’t schedule a football practice on the morning of your team captain’s funeral.

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Tangerine

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“He is not spying. He’s at home drinking.”

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The Lost Language

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“Planet Earth is the last place I wanted to be.”

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The Lost Year

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“As the saying goes…better to die standing than live kneeling.”

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I Must Betray You

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“But the hard thing about getting closer to somebody is you have to tell them so much about what happened before for them to understand why you care so much about what is happening now.”

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The Lost Language

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“It does not belong to me, but this evening does, this this time that is dark and bright and full of both the unexpected and the familiar.”

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Matched

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“A terrible secret changed my life.”

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The Lost Year

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“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

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Alice in Wonderland

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“Love is the very highest form of courage.”

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The Whisperwicks

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“I knew all along…I knew when I saw the fear in their eyes when we first arrived. They knew what they were doing.”

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Matched

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“A path that goes not back nor forth. A road that does not go south, east, west or north. A place where sunlight cannot reach. A depth no breathing thing can breach.”

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The Whisperwicks

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“I was beginning to feel like Sisyphus.”

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Matched

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“If your a war eagle than your a war eagle, you got brothers to back you up.”

Tino

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Tangerine

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"It's a lovely story set on an old country estate. A love story, but also a mystery novel. It begins with a ghostly sighting of a woman."
The Whisperwicks
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“It’s amazing how just one thing said by just one person, in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day, can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.”
The Lost Language
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"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."
Alice in Wonderland
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"An old familiar feeling came over me, like I had forgotten something. What was it! What did need to remember?"
Tangerine
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"Papa told me not to believe their lies."
The Lost Year
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"We can't give you the life you want...We wish we could. But we can help you have a chance to decide which life you want."
Matched
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"We can do without lobsters you know."
Alice in Wonderland
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"I really like that thing you do, funny guy, when you pretend to kick a football and then you go flyin' up in the air..."
Tangerine
33
"He lifts the blade to his head . . . and begins to shave off his hair."
The Bletchley Riddle
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"Concentrating proved difficult. Chess required careful thought and calculation."
The Whisperwicks
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"This is too much. I couldn't bear one of his stories, not now. He would make up a world much simpler and happier than the one that existed. It was he who told fairy tales."
The Lost Year
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"I look at the seed resting in the palm of my hand. There is still mystery in it after all, in that little brown core."
Matched
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"Pointless things can still be worth doing. Sometimes the point is just how hard you tried to do them."
The Lost Language
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"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
Alice in Wonderland
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"What do you say, let's help fight the freeze"
Tangerine
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"Promised are funny things....The true test is whether a person does their very best to keep them."
The Whisperwicks
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"He took a breath, feeling the cold air thread into his chest. This was happening. He was really here. But where was here?
The Whisperwicks
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"Shedding gallons of tears until there was a pool all round."
Alice in Wonderland
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"I agree. Cold and sweet and wonderful, the ice cream slides across my tongue and down my throat and into my stomach, where I swear I can feel it long after it melts."
Matched
44
"Later that afternoon, I dragged the Moleskin notebook and my laptop up to my bunkbed. Then I drew a family tree."
The Lost Year
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"Fire buckets are poised at the ready."
I Must Betray You
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"Gradually the silence was broken by the gathering growl of a tiger-a dreadful stormy crescendo."
The Whisperwicks
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"All you could understand was that something bad happened"
Tangerine
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“I don’t know how I feel now about being an extra mean flower.”
The Lost Language
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"To read, to be curious, is the most astonishing kind of magic."
The Whisperwicks
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
Alice in Wonderland
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"The sky is blue, but the city is the color of war."
The Bletchley Riddle
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"Of course, the more cunningly the secrets are hidden, the harder people like me will work to find them."
The Bletchley Riddle
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"Nobody knows where the edges are, if indeed there are edges.
The Whisperwicks
54
“Mr. Bridges, can we count on you to stop these afternoon practices during thunderstorms?”
Tangerine
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"I am too old for many things...but the day I'm too old for children's books will be a very dark day indeed."
The Whisperwicks
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“It’s amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.”
The Lost Language
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"Once I'm back in my room I listen through the walls again. Something about my mother leaving right now alarms me."
Matched
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"Of course, the more cunningly the secrets are hidden, the harder people like me will work to find them."
The Bletchley RIddle
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
Alice in Wonderland
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"The traveler is stopped by soldiers. It's their job to make sure no one carries any secret messages."
The Bletchley Riddle
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"He was like a ship that had spent months at sea-long perilous months, characterized by fear and doubt, horizons without end-coming into port.."
The Whisperwicks
62
“I have a terrible feeling it’s bad news. My mother is smiling, but I can’t tell if it’s a fake smile or a real smile.”
The Lost Language
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"If Hitler was hoping to break our spirit, to sow panic and despair, he must be sadly disappointed."
The Bletchley RIddle
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"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise."
Alice in Wonderland
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“ “I’m so proud of you for trying,” she says again and gives me a hug this time.”
The Lost Language
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“He’s never there. Well, hardly ever. Weeks can go by when I don’t see him, and then I only get a glimpse of him, on the way to the bathroom or something.”
The Lost Language
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“She’s under a lot of stress,...You know how challenging her work is. It’s just a lot for her right now. Especially with waiting to hear about the grant.”
The Lost Language

Battle of the Books 2023-4 (4 decks)

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