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1. "Smiling without good reason is demeaning." ~ Ellen Raskin
2. "Hi Sandy, I won!" ~ Ellen Raskin
3. "The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo" ~ Ellen Raskin
4. "Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler" ~ Ellen Raskin
5. "Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation.""An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach." ~ Ellen Raskin
6. "Death is senseless yet makes way for the living." ~ Ellen Raskin
7. "You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish." ~ Ellen Raskin
8. "Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down" ~ Ellen Raskin
9. "Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers." ~ Ellen Raskin
10. "I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know." ~ Ellen Raskin
11. "The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!" ~ Ellen Raskin
12. "Angela could not be the bomber, not that sweet, pretty thing. Thing? Is that how she regarded that young woman, as a thing? And what had she ever said to her except "I hear you're getting married, Angela" or "How pretty you look, Angela." Had anyone asked her about her ideas, her hopes, her plans? If I had been treated like that I'd have used dynamite, not fireworks; no, I would have just walked out and kept right on going. But Angela was different." ~ Ellen Raskin
13. "Can you stand on your legs?" Sydelle Pulaski asked. "Can you walk at all?"People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. "N-n-no. Why?""What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi."Chris enjoyed being taken for the criminal type. Now they really were friends." ~ Ellen Raskin
14. "Sandy fidgeted with his pen. "There's something I didn't write down. Maybe I shouldn't tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler… he's a bookie."No, he should not have told her. "A small-time operator, I'm sure, Mr. McSouthers," the judge replied coldly. "It can have no bearing on the matter before us. Sam Westing manipulated people, cheated workers, bribed officials, stole ideas, but Sam Westing never smoked or drank or placed a bet. Give me a bookie any day over such a fine, upstanding, clean-living man." ~ Ellen Raskin
15. "By the time the bomb squad reached the scene (by way of the stairs), the smoke had cleared, but the young girl was still huddled on the hallway floor, tears streaming down her turtle-like face."For heaven's sake, say something," her mother said. "Tell me where it hurts."The pain was too great to be put into words. Five inches of Turtle's braid were badly singed." ~ Ellen Raskin
16. "Frenssh-fry" ~ Ellen Raskin
17. "Hello, Jake, I'm glad you could come," Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission."Boom!" Jake Wexler replied." ~ Ellen Raskin
18. "I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare." ~ Ellen Raskin
19. "Grace sat down where the chair wasn't." ~ Ellen Raskin
20. "Angela Wexler, person" ~ Ellen Raskin
21. "Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows." ~ Ellen Raskin
22. "Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker."That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly." ~ Ellen Raskin

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Nuestra reacción ante la lectura está más en la función de lo que sucede en nuestro interior que del contenido del libro... Los libros reposan en espera de que estemos preparados."
Author: Bruno Bettelheim

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