“ Love is love, seems to me. As long as what you love isn't armed robbery, or bombing airplanes, or kidnapping little children. -Crystal Jeanne DuPrau
“ Lina liked going to the market plaza. It was always alive with people and animals, and the market had things she'd never seen before-sandals made of old truck tires, hats and baskets woven of straw. Jeanne DuPrau
“ 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 w… Jeanne DuPrau
“ Nickie was so tired of the Crisis. It had been going on now for months. On TV and the radio, it was all you ever heard about: how Our Side and Their Side had come almost, but not quite, to the point o… Jeanne DuPrau
“ Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren’t the master of yourself any-more. Anger is. Jeanne DuPrau
“ 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 apart… Jeanne DuPrau
“ Everyone has some darkness inside. It’s like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets. Jeanne DuPrau
“ All these words, written so long ago, seemed to say to her, Remember us. We were here. We were real. Jeanne DuPrau
“ The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer… Jeanne DuPrau
“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in… Jeanne DuPrau
“ It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light. Jeanne DuPrau
