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The Spindlers QUOTES

The Spindlers QUOTES

1 " That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

2 " There is a nocturna for every single person in the world! And each night the nocturni sip dreams from the River of Knowledge, and fly out into the world, and deliver them to their humans. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

3 " They looked like butterflies, except that they had the long, pointed beaks of hummingbirds, and they seemed to be made out of darkness and air. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

4 " Liza made a sudden decision. "I'll be your friend," she announced. she had trouble speaking the words but was glad once she had spoken them. She did not really want to be friends with an enormous rat of questionable sanity, but it seemed the right thing to say. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

5 " It was strange how once you saw a rat wearing clothes, it became slightly disgusting to imagine the animal naked. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

6 " Yes, the world was very strange. But you had to walk through. That was the trick. You had to keep walking through, always, with your chin held high, the way she had passed through the tunnels of the underworld, with only the dim light of the lumpen to guide her. That was the other trick, the other truth: Light would come to you from unexpected places. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

7 " -"your nocturna will never take another human, not for all the length of time in the universe and beyond. Your nocturna is wedded to your soul. Some even say"..."that it is the nocturni who carry souls into the Shadow World when we die, where they will keep watch over them and keep them safe forever. Some say that is nocturni's ultimate purpose. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

8 " Are seeds of hope, yes. Of course."..."The nocturni are the bearers of the hope seeds."..."That's why it's such bad luck to cross them...They carry the seeds Above, and plant them in souls where they're needed. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

9 " The first thing she noticed were the lightbulbs in the ceiling.
She wondered where the spindlers had gotten them, and where the wires for the electricity ran to, and pictured some poor family Above whose bills were always too high at the end of the month, and the father who would yell at the children about where all that power went - when really, of course, it was the spindlers that were the whole problem. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

10 " Who taught you to go around falling on rats ans squishing on hats? Terrible, terrible. Must always be mindful of your manners. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

11 " Prodigies! Geniuses! Artists! The lumer-lumpen are some of the most sensitive, the most brilliant, the wisest creatures on the earth or inside of it. There is more wisdom in the head of a lumpen than you will find in all the libraries of the world...If only they could speak... "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

12 " For a moment the mole let his disappointment show on his snout. Then he grunted, "You're much smarter than you smell." Liza let out a whoop of satisfaction and chose not to worry too much about what stupidity smelled like. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers

13 " Everyone knows that only wishes that are kept secret will ever come true. "

― Lauren Oliver , The Spindlers