The Willoughbys
Lois Lowry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”
“We are four worthy orphans with a no-nonsense nanny." Like Mary Poppins?" suggested the man, with a pleased look of recognition. Not one bit like that fly-by-night woman," Nanny said with a sniff. "It almost gives me diabetes just to think of her: all those disgusting spoonfuls of sugar!”
“I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.”
“NEFARIOUS means utterly, completely wicked. The character in The Wizard of Oz could have been called the Nefarious Witch of the West but authors like to use the same beginning consonant, often. Perhaps L. Frank Baum crossed out nefarious after wicked came to his mind. Thank goodness, because Nefarious would be a terrible name for a musical.”
“The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.”
“Squalor has nothing to do with money. Squalor happens when people are sad. And”
“Squalor has nothing to do with money. Squalor happens when people are sad. And Commander Melanoff was very sad.”
“She married, surprisingly, her stepbrother Tim, who, as predicted, became an attorney. The”
“CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that’s just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that’s a conspiracy.”
“And things to wrap around the bottom of an infant. Not dishtowels.” “Pampers?” asked the grocer. “I am an old-fashioned gentleman.” “Diapers, then?” suggested the grocer. “Or, if you are truly old-fashioned, they would be called nappies.” “Yes, those.”
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