Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

- Ellen Raskin

Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

- Ellen Raskin

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

- Ellen Raskin

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappi…

- Ellen Raskin

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

- Ellen Raskin

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bi…

- Ellen Raskin

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

- Ellen Raskin

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

- Ellen Raskin