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1 " The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth. "
― Blue Balliett , Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1)
2 " What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three. "
― Blue Balliett , The Calder Game (Chasing Vermeer, #3)
3 " Depending on how you look at things. Your world could change completely. His thought, was that most people bend over backwards to fit everything that happened to them into something that they could understand. In other words, people some times twisted what was actually in front of them to fit what they they thought should be there, and never even realize they were doing it. People like to see what they were supposed to see and find what they were supposed to find. "
4 " Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real? "
5 " Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused."And changed us all," Petra said softly. "
6 " Nada como uma cidade pequena para deixar as pessoas curiosas. "
― Blue Balliett , The Danger Box
7 " What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"? "
8 " Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't. "
9 " Every book is a box of ideas. "
10 " I don't know how anyone else sees the world and no one else sees the world exactly how I see the world! We each see in our own, unique way. "
11 " You will come to agree with me. "
12 " The more you search the more you find. "
13 " The wind came up and changed us all.. "
― Blue Balliett
14 " not really a quote but here is isThe setting is the start.The story hangs from that hook,and the characters move slowly around one another.Each piece has its own shape and size.The characters think they see the wires that connect them.But that isn't possible.Or is it?Who makes the rules? "
15 " Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights. "
16 " I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave. "
17 " Grams calls them "worry crumbs" those leftover bits of an uncomfortable idea. She fixes worry crumbs with sayings and she has one to fit almost any size mess or confusion. "
18 " Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power "
― Blue Balliett , Hold Fast
19 " Perhaps Calder's secret lies in the idea that each mobile is, truly, a metaphor for the experience of living, for the interconnected movement of separate elements that make up a life. Each mobile tells us to stop, to wonder, to wonder some more, and to celebrate. "
20 " It occurred to her that the more you looked at less, the more less became more. "
― Blue Balliett , The Wright 3 (Chasing Vermeer, #2)
