Prayer of the anonymous people

Quote of the week:

If she could only find it, Lucky was pretty sure she'd be able to figure out the difference between the things she could change and the things she couldn't, like in the little prayer of the anonymous people. Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.

- Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky

So lively and so loud

Quote of the week:

Haley stood. Her arms hung slightly outwards from the rest of her and her hands dangled, useless and floppy with strangeness. She had never been in the same room with so many people in her life. She was used to the hushed and sequestered way Grandma and Grandad lived, where nobody ran about, or laughed much, and nobody ever shouted. These people were so lively and so loud.

- Diana Wynned Jones, The Game

What to call themselves

Quote of the week:

And so they had set about choosing what to call themselves....

Kate said, "How about 'Mr. Benedict and the Great Kate Weath-'"

"Don't even finish that," said Reynie.

"The Mysterious Benedict Society," Constance said, rising as she spoke. Then she left the room, apparently convinced that no more discussion was necessary.

And, as it turned out, she was right.

- Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society