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The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4) QUOTES

The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4) QUOTES

1 " Caroline "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

2 " He’ll never set the world on fire, but he’s steady,” Wally overheard his mom say to his aunt once. And that was just fine with him.
But when the Malloys moved in, he forgot what peaceful was. He forgot what quiet was. When a strange animal, possibly a cougar, was sighted around Buckman—an animal the newspaper nicknamed an abaguchie—Wally even dreamed that the animal had carried off Caroline, and he would never have to feel her poking him in the back again with her pencil. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

3 " He had to interview Caroline Malloy?
He had to let her interview him?—to ask questions about what he liked, how he lived, what he ate?
And then, as though that weren’t enough, he had to be Caroline for a day? Did Miss Applebaum go to Torture School to come up with these projects or did she think them up all by herself in the dead of night? "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

4 " Well, I know what I want to be too,” she told her parents. “An actress on Broadway.”
“Caroline, you’re always onstage, twenty-four hours a day,” said her father. “You can’t even tie your shoes without making a production of it.”
Caroline wasn’t sure if that was a compliment or not. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

5 " He slowly unfolded it, cleared his throat, scratched his head, and said, “Would you rather go to the dentist or throw up?”
Good grief, thought Caroline, as the minutes ticked by. How was he supposed to be her for a day if he didn’t ask any better questions than that? "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

6 " I don’t care, she thought angrily, turning all her anger back onto Wally again. I am going to make him as miserable as I can this Christmas, and if we’re both stuck in fourth grade for the rest of our lives, he’ll be sorry he ever heard the name Malloy. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

7 " There’s only one way to find out,” said Eddie, smiling slightly.
Beth turned to her sister. “Spy on them?”
“Exactly.”
Caroline began to feel all warm inside again, though not, she knew, with the Christmas spirit. Eddie and Beth were back in her corner again, making plans, and that was right where she wanted them to be. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

8 " Mind if we check the other rooms to make sure?” an officer asked Dad.
“Please do,” said Father. “If there’s a body lying around up here, I want to know about it. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

9 " You know, Jean, maybe it’s a good thing we had all girls. If those Hatford boys belonged to us, we’d be in a mental ward. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

10 " Outside, Wally, Josh, and Jake stared at each other.
“You want to spend the night in the Bensons’ garage?” asked Jake.
“How about a one-way ticket to Texas?” moaned Josh. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

11 " Mother went back inside when the police had gone, but Dad did not. Instead he walked to the edge of the porch, cupped his hands over his mouth, and bellowed like a bull moose. “Wallace, Joshua, and Joseph! Get in here! Now!”
“You want to spend the night in the woods?” Wally whispered to his brothers.
“He’d just come looking for us,” said Josh. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

12 " They came out of the bushes as their father yelled again, crossed the road, and went up the steps to the porch, where Mr. Hatford held the door open for them. Whenever Dad held the door open, Wally always felt like a prisoner going into his cell. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

13 " Boys fell for so many things you wouldn’t think they’d believe. It was really incredible. None of her friends back home had been quite so stupid. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

14 " But . . . but what will we talk about? We can’t just sit here staring at each other and stuffing cookies in our mouths!” Beth had protested, and Caroline noticed that her cheeks were strangely pink.
“Why, Beth, we’ll talk about whatever comes to mind. With eleven people in a room, it shouldn’t be hard to think of something to say. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

15 " As soon as the girls were in the kitchen, Beth and Eddie started to giggle.
“What?” asked Caroline.
“Do you know what looks like cinnamon?” said Eddie. “Chili powder.”
Caroline gave a little squeak of delight.
“And do you know what looks like chocolate sprinkles?” asked Beth.
“What?” Carolina asked again.
“I don’t know,” said Beth. “What does?”
The sisters looked through Mother’s cupboards. The closest thing they could find to chocolate sprinkles was cracked pepper.
“Now here’s the thing—we’ve got to mix them so the guys won’t get suspicious. Caroline, you mix a little cinnamon and chili powder together, Beth, you do the chocolate sprinkles and cracked pepper, and I’ll get the coffee for Mr. and Mrs. Hatford.”
“Ha! Wally wanted both the chocolate and cinnamon. He’s going to get a double dose!” laughed Caroline. Was this a good party or what? "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

16 " Caroline Malloy, the Crazie, went after her sister with a hammer. Missed, but I can imagine what the hammer did to the floor. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

17 " He was afraid she might guess who it was from, and if she did, she’d probably throw it in the Buckman River without opening it. So he didn’t even put her name on it, just a little folded piece of paper under the ribbon that read, “From a secret admirer,” so she’d be sure to open it. He no more admired Caroline than he admired stinkweed. When she saw the underpants, though, with another note—“Since you liked them so much, you can have them”—she’d know Wally was no admirer. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

18 " Mother drove away, and Wally wondered if you could have a heart attack when you were only nine years old. Without a word to his brothers, he whirled about and ran as fast as he could back to the school, his book bag banging against him. His teacher had just received a gift that said, “From a secret admirer,” and a note with his underpants saying, “Since you liked them so much, you can have them.” He would probably be thrown out of elementary school and sent to a military academy. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

19 " Caroline took one look at the box and figured Wally had given her a present in return—something even grosser than cat vomit. She took it to her room, then had second thoughts and took it out to the garage instead. Maybe she should call the bomb squad to open it. It was probably something that would explode in her face. "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)

20 " Dad,” he said later after all the company had gone and he and his father were picking up the wrapping paper. “Have you ever thought about living somewhere else?”
“Where did you have in mind, Wally?” asked his father. “You want me to move down the block, maybe? "

― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , The Girls' Revenge (Boy/Girl Battle, #4)