Books Of Ember Quotes & Sayings

Women are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into other names, and sink without a trace. — Margaret Atwood

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him.
People of Sparks
— Jeanne DuPrau

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Leonard Bernstein

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it. — Hugo Weaving

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore. — Edgar Allan Poe

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad. — Jeanne DuPrau

Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome. — Clay Shirky

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her. — Jeanne DuPrau