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Jacqueline Kelly QUOTES

1 " Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

2 " One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

3 " I had never seen a real live dead person. "

― Jacqueline Kelly

4 " They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

5 " Granddaddy had told me about the wasp that could opt to be male or female while in a larval stage. An interesting thought. I wondered why human children weren't given that option in their grub stage, say up through age five. With everything I had seen about the lives of boys and girls, I would definitely choose to be a boy grub. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

6 " But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

7 " It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

8 " Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

9 " When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

10 " Could anything top the promise and potential of a blank page? What could be more satisfying? Never mind that it would soon be crammed with awkward penmanship, that my handwriting inevitably sloped downhill to the right-hand corner, that I blotted my ink, that my drawings never came out the way I saw them in my head. Never mind all that. What counted was possibility. You could live on possibility, at least for a while. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #2)

11 " It turned out to be a young Dasypus novemcinctus, a nine-banded armadillo, about the size of a small loaf of bread. Although they were becoming more common in Texas, I'd never seen one up close before. Anatomically speaking, it resembled the unhappy melding of an anteater (the face), a mule (the ears), and a tortoise (the carapace). I thought it overall an unlucky creature in the looks department, but Granddaddy once said that to apply a human definition of beauty to an animal that had managed to thrive for millions of years was both unscientific and foolish. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #2)

12 " Es asombroso lo que uno puede ver cuando se sienta a mirar. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

13 " It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

14 " It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

15 " It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

16 " We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

17 " Lula," I said, "do you ever think about getting married?"
I guess I do. Doesn't everybody?"
You have to let your husband kiss you once you're married. And you have to kiss him back."
No," she said.
Yes." I nodded, as if I knew everything there was to know about husbands and wives kissing. "That's what they do together."
Do you have to?"
Oh, absolutely. It's the law."
I never heard of that law," she said dubiously.
It's true, it's Texas law," I said. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

18 " I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn't come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

19 " That night, when SanJuanna had cleared the main course and brought dessert in, my mother called for quiet and said,
"Boys, I have an announcement to make. Your sister made the apple pies tonight. I'm sure we will all enjoy them very much."
"Can I learn how, ma'am?" said Jim Bowie.
"No, J.B. Boys don't bake pies," Mother said.
"Why not?" he said.
"They have wives who make pies for them."
"But I don't have a wife."
"Darling, I'm sure you will have a very nice one someday when you're older, and she'll make you many pies. Calpurnia, would you care to serve?"
Was there any way I could have a wife, too? I wondered as I cut through the browned C and promptly shattered the entire crust. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

20 " By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat. "

― Jacqueline Kelly , The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)