Jeanne DuPrau

You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and…

— Jeanne DuPrau

Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house…

— Jeanne DuPrau

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she…

— Jeanne DuPrau

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And…

— Jeanne DuPrau

“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“She flicked off the TV.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“Think about what it would mean to fight," he said. "Say we barricade ourselves here in the hotel and refuse to leave.…

— Jeanne DuPrau

“Lina had never seen anyone so disorganized as the doctor. She peeked into the medicine room once when the doctor was out…

— Jeanne DuPrau

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the…

— Jeanne DuPrau

“Just look at it!”

— Jeanne DuPrau

They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a…

— Jeanne DuPrau

He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

— Jeanne DuPrau

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just…

— Jeanne DuPrau

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what…

— Jeanne DuPrau

“Goats and oxen, pulling carts in from the field, left their big, smelly plops all over. these got cleaned up eventually-someone came…

— Jeanne DuPrau

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew…

— Jeanne DuPrau

Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least…

— Jeanne DuPrau

Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

— Jeanne DuPrau

“Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't…

— Jeanne DuPrau

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be…

— Jeanne DuPrau

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

— Jeanne DuPrau

Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.

— Jeanne DuPrau

“Lina liked going to the market plaza. It was always alive with people and animals, and the market had things she'd never…

— Jeanne DuPrau

Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That's where the…

— Jeanne DuPrau