The-Penderwick-Crew

"Maybe I can drown him in the lilly pond."

"It's not right to shoot someone because their not intelligent."

"Why does everbody think I argue? I never argue." Sky hesitated. "Or at least, I'm not going to argue as much anymore." "That would be a miracle." Skye chose to pretend she hadn't heard that."

"Endings are sad aren't they?" "Yes."

"The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all."

Why had she bothered? She didn't care. Some things, she thought, were too unimportant to fuss over.

Rosalind flopped onto her bed and stared mourfully at the ceiling. " I guess I shouldn't have called Tommy an oaf."

"Blue eyes, Blue sky."

"Am I odd? Is there something wrong wit me, like Mrs.Tifton said?" Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot, there's nothing wrong with you."

"Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost."

"Even a tiny bit of deciet is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons."-Mr. Penderwick

"Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her."