Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That's where the treasure will be ….

She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the p….

Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky..

Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the….

Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?.

People find a way through just about anything..

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her wit….

They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all h….

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening..

It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, th….

What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?.

The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, a….

It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, ….

Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs..

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get uni….

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes fr….

The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was….

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being ….

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we addre….

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place ….

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know..