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The Boggart QUOTES

The Boggart QUOTES

1 " But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again. "

― Susan Cooper , The Boggart

2 " He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which--having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred years during which it had included the British Isles--he found inaccurate and boring. "

― Susan Cooper , The Boggart

3 " For him, Halloween was not All Hallows Eve "

― Susan Cooper , The Boggart

4 " Tommy looked blank. "What's a flashlight?"

"You don't have flashlights?" Jessup said. "Jeeze! A cylinder, like, with batteries inside it, and a light bulb behind glass at one end--"

Tommy's blue eyes glinted dangerously. "We have a thing in Scotland that's a cylinder too. Very thin, made of wood, with graphite in the center. We call it a pencil."

Jessup hooted. "You think we don't have pencils?"

"You think we don't have flashlights?" Tommy snapped. "That's just American dialect. In the English language they're called torches."

Emily said mildly, "Actually we're Canadians. "

― Susan Cooper , The Boggart