edgewritermom Quotes

Even Nick, raised in privilege, knew that if you seemed too eager for money it made you look bad. What he didn’t know yet was that if you seemed too eager for a job and didn’t press for satisfactory answers about money, some employers would fleece you.

Help that lady to her feet and take care of her. How we supposed to get any ransom money for damaged goods?

I guess we can’t take most of our luggage, but that’s all right. We probably over-packed, anyway.

She thought of being so tired all you wanted to do was to crawl into bed and become unconscious as quickly as possible, and not being able to because a child who was too young to understand needed you to do something he was too young to do for himself.

It cheats you out of a good deal of satisfaction in life when you can’t produce things for yourself.

When the pirates show up, of course they act all dashing and charming at first. They dress in those colourful clothes, you know; they swagger around town with those big swords stuck in their belts. The young men in town begin to imagine it would be more exciting to be pirates than to work in their parents’ gardens and shops... No use telling them that their heroes are really just thieves in pretty costumes.