Ellen Raskin

“Sandy fidgeted with his pen. “There’s something I didn’t write down. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you, you being a judge and all,…

— Ellen Raskin

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package,…

— Ellen Raskin

“Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are,…

— Ellen Raskin

“Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.”

— Ellen Raskin

“Can you stand on your legs?” Sydelle Pulaski asked. “Can you walk at all?” People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered…

— Ellen Raskin

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

— Ellen Raskin

“Hello, Jake, I'm glad you could come," Sunny (as Madame Hoo was now called) said, shaking the hand of the chairman of…

— Ellen Raskin

“TURTLE SPENT THE night at the bedside of eighty-five-year-old Julian R. Eastman. T. R. Wexler had a master’s degree in business administration,…

— Ellen Raskin

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

— Ellen Raskin

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

— Ellen Raskin

“Hi Sandy, I won!”

— Ellen Raskin

Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

— Ellen Raskin

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were…

— Ellen Raskin

“Angela Wexler, person ”

— Ellen Raskin

“Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the…

— Ellen Raskin

“Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker." That was a hard one. Chris had to say…

— Ellen Raskin

“Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down ”

— Ellen Raskin

“HOO JAMES SHIN HOO. Born: James Hoo in Chicago. Age: 50. Added Shin to his name when he went into the restaurant…

— Ellen Raskin

Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

— Ellen Raskin

“Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.”

— Ellen Raskin

“Angela could not be the bomber, not that sweet, pretty thing. Thing? Is that how she regarded that young woman, as a…

— Ellen Raskin

“I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was…

— Ellen Raskin

“Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.”

— Ellen Raskin

“Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.”

— Ellen Raskin

“You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.”

— Ellen Raskin