Quotes by Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau

A darkness different from Ember’s, but just as frightening.

Darkness

Different

Embers

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.

Knows

Persons

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. –People of Sparks–

Littles

People

Strong

He says I’m beautiful as a red tomato

Beautiful

Red

Tomatoes

His sympathy made tears spring to Lina’s eyes. Doon looked startled for a moment, and then he took a step toward her and wrapped his arms around her. He gave her a squeeze so quick and tight that it made her cough, and then it made her laugh. She realized all at once that Doon–thin, dark-eyed Doon with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket and his good heart–was the person that she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.

Eye

Heart

Spring

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

Acceptance

Events

Trying

It wasn’t because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

Curiosity

Kindness

Ordinary

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.

Light

Two

Understanding

It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

Dog

Dust

Stars

Lina couldn’t sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all – herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn’t know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

Sleep

Song

Thinking

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Acceptance

Air

Anger

Angry

Animal

Answers

Attention

Beautiful

Bending

Blue

Book

Boss

Care

Children

Cities

Curiosity

Dark

Darkness

Differences

Different

Doctors

Dog

Dust

Embers

Events

Ever After

Eye

Giving

Good Life

Happily Ever After

Hard Work

Heart

Ideas

Ifs

Interesting

Kindness

Knows

Life

Light

Little Sister

Littles

Mean

Needs

New Friends

Ordinary

Pain

Pavement

Pay

Peace

People

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Quotes by Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau

A darkness different from Ember’s, but just as frightening.

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. –People of Sparks–

He says I’m beautiful as a red tomato

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

It wasn’t because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

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.

It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

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