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Eleanor Estes QUOTES

1 " After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

2 " In Boston one day, she had an unusual experience. While Papa and Auntie Hoyt waited out of sight somewhere, she had to go by herself into a large room in a department store and listen to someone dressed like Santa Claus read a Christmas story and "Twas the Night Before Christmas. This seemed odd to her for at Thanksgiving time, she was not ready for Santa Claus. In Cranbury they got through the turkeys and the pumpkins and the Pilgrims before they brought out the Santa Clauses. She was quite relieved when the whole occasion was over. "

― Eleanor Estes , Ginger Pye (The Pyes, #1)

3 " Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Witch Family

4 " Ginger twitched his ears and the loose skin on his back and legs to let Jerry know he was here and he was happy. Then he lowered his head down on his paws again and he let out a deep sigh that sounded almost like a sob, there was in it so much relief and pain and pleasure and remembering. "

― Eleanor Estes , Ginger Pye (The Pyes, #1)

5 " Ginger's eyes had always been beautiful, gay, sparkling, laughing, and intelligent. Now they were even more beautiful for there were sadness and pleading, an anxious questioning, in them, too. "

― Eleanor Estes , Ginger Pye (The Pyes, #1)

6 " Bright Blue Day   SOMEHOW Maddie could not buckle down to work. She sharpened her pencil, "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

7 " She was never going to stand by and say nothing again. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

8 " This is not the real cave, is it?" asked Rachel.
"Can't be," said Jerry.
"Must be," said Dick. "Sign says so."
What a cave! Iron fencing all around it, a sign saying to keep out, even barbed wire along the top of the fence. They couldn't see the entrance to the cave. They couldn't tell how deep into the earth and rock it went. They couldn't tell whether this cave was like the cave in Tom Sawyer or what it was like...

"In old times, it was better," said Rachel. "They did not have cages around things. "

― Eleanor Estes , Ginger Pye (The Pyes, #1)

9 " More shouts of laughter greeted this, and off the girls ran, laughing and talking and forgetting Wanda and her hundred dresses. Forgetting until tomorrow and the next day and the next, when Peggy, seeing her coming to school, would remember and ask her about the hundred dresses. For now Peggy seemed to think a day was lost if she had not had some fun with Wanda, winning the approving laughter of the girls. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

10 " Yes, that was the way it had all begun, the game of the hundred dresses. It all happened so suddenly and unexpectedly, with everybody falling right in, that even if you felt uncomfortable as Maddie had there wasn’t anything you could do about it. Maddie wagged her head up and down. Yes, she repeated to herself, that was the way it began, that day, that bright blue day. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

11 " Peggy, to say, “Hey, Peg, let’s stop asking Wanda how many dresses she has.” When she finished her arithmetic, she did start a note to Peggy. Suddenly she paused and shuddered. She pictured herself in the school yard, a new target for Peggy and the girls. Peggy might ask her where she got the dress she had on, and Maddie would have to say that it was one of Peggy’s old ones that Maddie’s mother had tried to disguise with new trimmings so that no one in Room 13 would recognize it. If only Peggy would decide of her own accord to stop having fun with Wanda. Oh, well! Maddie ran her hand through her short blond hair as though to push the uncomfortable thoughts away. What difference did it make? Slowly Maddie tore the note she had started into bits. She was Peggy’s best friend, and Peggy was the best-liked girl in the whole room. Peggy could not possibly do anything that was really wrong, she thought. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

12 " Dear teacher: My Wanda will not come to your school anymore. Jake also. Now we move away to big city. No more holler Polack. No more ask why funny name. Plenty of funny names in the big city. Yours truly, Jan Petronski. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

13 " I am sure none of my boys and girls in Room 13 would purposely and deliberately hurt anyone’s feelings because his name happened to be a long, unfamiliar one. I prefer to think that what was said was said in thoughtlessness. I know that all of you feel the way I do, that this is a very unfortunate thing to have happen. Unfortunate and sad, both. And I want you all to think about it. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

14 " had to make fun of Wanda. She worked her arithmetic problems absentmindedly. Eight times eight . . . let’s see . . . nothing she could do about making fun of Wanda. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

15 " She had a very sick feeling in the bottom of her stomach. True, she had not enjoyed listening to Peggy ask Wanda how many dresses she had in her closet, but she had said nothing. She had stood by silently, and that was just as bad as what Peggy had done. Worse. She was a coward. At least Peggy hadn’t considered they were being mean, but she, Maddie, had thought they were doing wrong. She had thought, supposing she was the one being made fun of. She could put herself in Wanda’s shoes. But she had done just as much as Peggy to make life miserable for Wanda by simply standing by and saying nothing. She had helped to make someone so unhappy that she had had to move away from town. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Hundred Dresses

16 " Mama could peel apples! "

― Eleanor Estes , The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

17 " she would rap "

― Eleanor Estes , The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

18 " she crashed to the sidewalk. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

19 " Wha-ja-do? Break your doll? "

― Eleanor Estes , The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)

20 " You are a dog. You are a dog,” she repeated. "

― Eleanor Estes , The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)