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„Here, have a punctuation mark." And she held out a box of sugar-coated question marks, periods, commas, and exclamation points. „That’s all I get to eat now.”

Tough life! Just exclamation marks to eat!

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„It's against the law to bark without using the barking meter. Are you ready to be sentenced?… would you like a long or a short sentence? A short one, if you please," said Milo… How about "I am'? That's the shortest sentence I know."… There will also be a small additional penalty of six million years in prison. Case closed," he pronounced, rapping his gavel again. "Come with me. I'lI take you to the dungeon."

"I knew you'd like it, laughed the letter man, popping two G's and an R into his mouth and letting the juice drip down his chin. "A's are one of our most popular letters. All of them aren't that good," he confided in a low voice. "Take the Z, for instance very dry and sawdusty.”

Give me A the letterman!

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Never ending indeed!

In Doldrums “no one’s allowed to think.”

"We don't want to get anything done (…) we
want to get nothing done (…) it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere.”

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"I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be! And with that he released a dozen balloons that sailed off into the sky.”

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“There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself — not just sometimes, but always.”

Oh boy

“Time isn’t precious, Penelope. You are. As long as you remember that, you’re sure to use it wisely.”

“How is this possible?"
"It's not,"
"It's not?"
"Of course not! Nothing we do here is possible."
"Then what is it?"
"Impossible!" answered the woman, clapping her hands together in delight.

Can someone translate it to me, please 😆

“Don’t tell me you only believe in what you see! How do you get through life like that?”

“What exactly do they eat?” asked Penelope. She wanted to know just how dangerous these little creatures were.
“Tickles,” said Dill
“Tickles?”

“The tiny pellets exploded in Penelope's mouth, filling it with a sticky, puffy substance. The pellets grew to five times their original size. Then ten times. Then twenty.
"You're eating mushmellows," explained Dill. "A cross between mushrooms and marshmallows. I invented them as rations for long trips. But you really should eat them one at a time."

“One day a stranger came… carried nothing with him except a mysteriously black book and a gold pocket watch. His name was Chronos…”
He had “twenty-four rooms, one for each hour in the day. The rooms were dark and windowless and filled with ticking clocks.”

Moodling is daydreaming, letting your mind wander, losing track of time, and, in the most severe cases" - here he mouthed the words "doing nothing."

"Those mushrooms are very sensitive! They only grow under the most delicate conditions. You can't go around poking them!"
"I'm sorry,' explained Penelope. "I didn't mean to hurt them."
Dill's eyes softened. "All right, then. They are hard to resist. They're awfully springy. Bouncy. Downright squishy."

“I wish I had a lot of money!” he said. “I’d spend it all on candy.”

Obviously 🙄

Haven’t visited Anne for a long time!

So far I’m disappointed in the book. It’s not like it’s a bad story but was expecting something more after Wolf Hollow.

“I … decided that I would never complain about anything ever again, though I knew i would.”

"I suppose it will sound like fiddle to you," I replied. "But the truth is that, well,
I can understand dogs now (…)
"Finally!" James said (…) Did you ask Buster why dogs are always sniffing somebody's butt?”

Kids will be kids 😛

“It was a question I couldn’t answer without another lie.”

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“…I said, sorry for the lie, wishing I hadn't started down this path.
Lies had been at the root of every big mistake I'd ever made, and here I was lying again. But I didn't know how to keep my promise to Nora otherwise.”

“I'd heard soldiers say (…) about the war. How the fighting seemed to have a life of its own, like a virus that didn't want a cure.”

“My father sighed. "The potato house isn't exactly a house, Lily."
"Unless you're a potato," James remarked.

🤣

“smart often comes after a
mistake. That was one lesson I'd already
learned more than once. I reckoned I'd learn it again, but | didn't foresee the other mistakes that were coming, or what other kinds of
smart l'd become.”

“But then I felt guilty for thinking ill of a man who'd done nothing wrong. I didn't like it when other people jumped to conclusions, so I tried not to do that myself, though it was hard sometimes.”

Hard indeed!

“Wolf Hollow was also where I learned to tell the truth in that year before I turned twelve: about things from which refuge was impossible. Wrong, even. No matter how
tempting.”

“Instead, the stone made me aware for the first time that my life, however long, would amount to nothing more than a flicker. Not even that. Not even a flicker. Not even a sigh.”

D E E P and she’s only 12.

Yikes 😬 “Of all my chores, the worst was plucking a chicken after my mother had wrung its neck and dunked it in boiling water.”

Some good reasoning happening here.

“It occurred to her that there was no life beyond this one. It was a wicked thought according to everything she had been taught, but instead of feeling guilty, she was overwhelmed with relief. If there was no heaven, there was no hell, and if there was no hell then her unknown mother was not enduring the agonies of eternal torment, but simply gone… untouched by suffering.”