Gertrude Chandler Warner > Quotes

“One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“How they love the old boxcar!”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Surprise Island

“The island children did not look at the Aldens. In fact, they looked the other way.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Schoolhouse Mystery

“cake of soap”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“Those two really tall buildings are the World Trade Center — the Twin Towers.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery of the Purple Pool

“She had long blond hair and bright blue eyes, and her skin was deeply tanned.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Great Shark Mystery

“Elizabeth Star.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery in New York

“See you day after tomorrow!”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery of the Stolen Boxcar

“MYSTERY OF THE TRAVELING”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mike's Mystery

“Titus Pettibone”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Dinosaur Mystery

“top of those. Violet filled her arms with brush”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“The Missing Score”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery of the Stolen Music

“My dad says fine tools always get fine care.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children Mysteries Boxed Set #13-16

“coifee”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mountain Top Mystery

“That year I was going to take you up in the Rockies. No more of that. We’ll have to choose Old Flat Top because I don’t want Violet getting all tired out with a long climb. And I don’t want me getting all tired out either. The rest of you are tough enough.” Grandfather looked up to see that every Alden was looking at him. The four shining faces answered him. There were four nods. “You do have the strangest ideas, Benny,” said Jessie. “What put that into your head?” “Well,” said Benny, “I’ve been reading about that place in school.” “About Flat Top?” asked Violet. “Oh, you have, have you?” said Henry. “You chose Flat Top yourself?” “Right,” said Benny. “I don’t want to climb too much myself. I get lame.” Mr. Alden said, “Well, my answer is yes. Old Flat Top is easy enough for all of us, and yet it is interesting all the way up. And we’ll all be able to get a good rest on the smooth top.” “Just like airplanes landing on an airplane carrier,” said Benny.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mountain Top Mystery

“companies”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery of the Soccer Snitch

“Henry and Jessie did not say any more about the Indian boy, but they did not forget him. Once in awhile they both wondered where he came from and why he was there. They also wondered why he did not want to be seen.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mountain Top Mystery

“Benny”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Surprise Island

“Boy, look at that car!” said Benny, looking out the window. It was long and low. It was painted yellow and black. A man got out of the car. A guard spoke to him and nodded, and the man came to the back door.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mystery Ranch

“hare”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mountain Top Mystery

“What shall we do? Where shall we go?” thought Jessie. The wind was blowing more and more clouds across the sky, and the lightning was very near. She walked a little way into the woods, looking for a place to go out of the rain. “Where shall we go?” she thought again. Then she saw something ahead of her in the woods. It was an old boxcar. “What a good house that will be in the rain!” she thought.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“mean?”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“ranch to us instead of selling it. I hope she won’t be sorry.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children : Illustrated Children's Mystery Classics

“That is horse poop bingo.” “What?”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery at the Calgary Stampede

“She smiled politely at the woman, but the woman did not smile. She looked at Henry as he put his hand in his pocket for the money. She looked cross, but she sold him the bread. Jessie was looking around, too, and she saw a long red bench under each window of the bakery. The benches had flat red pillows on them. “Will you let us stay here for the night?” Jessie asked. “We could sleep on those benches, and tomorrow we would help you wash the dishes and do things for you.” Now the woman liked this. She did not like to wash dishes very well. She would like to have a big boy to help her with her”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“Benny let out a moan as everything fell to the floor.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery of the Haunted Boxcar

“tired faces of his grandchildren.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Chocolate Sundae Mystery

“That’s when he heard an awful roar up the mountain above him, like a thousand trains thundering down the track with a thousand tornadoes right behind them.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Mystery on Blizzard Mountain