The Aviary
Kathleen O'Dell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.”
“Put your nose in a book. That’s the best thing for you.”
“Books were the one way Clara could wander, so she was more than happy to spend her morning with the Black Knight and legendary outlaws of the forest.”
“Could be worse, I guess. Could have a husband.”
“She had to admit that she sometimes saw in them a reflection of herself, cooped up with nothing but the same faces to look at day after day. But today, she’d gone on a carriage ride and opened the door to Daphne. Perhaps her own cage door might be rattling open. Just a little bit?”
“Pretty, mysterious girl with braids … The depiction thrilled her. To be seen, to be described—it was as if the plain girl she always saw in the mirror might be magically transformed by the simple act of being observed by others. Pretty? Mysterious? What else might Clara be?”
“No matter what passes, for good or ill, it is always better to know.”
“If she also heard Mrs. Glendoveer’s voice warning her against this ill-advised adventure, she did not listen. She felt too bright inside.”
“I believe, and now I suspect we’re more alike than I’d imagined.” She raised her right hand. “You shall have my word,” she said. “No more secrets. Unless they’re ours together.”
“I ask too many personal questions and am always poking into the out-of-the-way places.”
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Book Keywords:
gossip, rumors, truth
