Watching and waiting in the darkness

Quote of the week:

...her father had carried the dollhouse up to her room. There it sat on the floor across from her bed. It was nearly as tall as she was, and its dark gray Mansard roof and shadowy little rooms cast an aura of gloom over her bright bedroom. All at once she realized that she would have to be alone with it at night. It was the thought of that thing watching and waiting in the darkness...that suddenly brought on her tears.

- William Sleator, Among the Dolls

A good strong brain underneath

Quote of the week:

"Good strong hair," he was fond of saying, "means there's a good strong brain underneath."

"Like Shakespeare," Matilda had once said to him.

"Like who?"

"Shakespeare, daddy."

"Was he brainy?"

"Very, daddy."

"He had masses of hair, did he?"

"He was bald, daddy."


-Roald Dahl, Matilda

A big, fat book

Quote of the week:

Ivy sat up straight. She scanned the judge's desk, set high upon a raised platform. He had his hammer, but she didn't see any book.
And then he spoke. "I sentence you," he began- Ivy closed her eyes tight, but even in the dark of her eyelids she saw a big, fat book sailing straight toward them all- "to twenty-five years."

- Carolyn Coman, The Big House