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"Travis' firefly was, in fact, the only one spotted that night. Although I knew the fireflies would return in a year, it felt like the extinction of a species. How sad to be the last of your kind, flashing your signal in the dark, alone, to nothingness. But I was not alone, was I? I had learned that there were others of my kind out there."

"Could I be blamed for my nature? Could the leopard change her spots? And, if so, what were my spots?"

"Light the lamp, Calpurnia. Let us cast some light in the shadowy corners of Terra Incognita. Let us hold high the lamp of knowledge and expunge another dragon from the map. We shall write to the Smithsonian Institution."

"I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts."

"How is it that the possum knows the exact time? I asked Granddaddy about this. He said seriously, "Maybe he carries a watch in his pouch like Alice's rabbit."

"After all, what was one book to me? Really it didn't matter. One day I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young Knights in armour dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home."

"After all, what was one book to me? Really it didn't matter. One day I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young Knights in armour dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home."

"What is the point of a library if they won't give you a book." "Some people aren't fit to be librarians," I said.

Calpurnia Virgina Tate 11 y.o. Sibling to 6 brothers. 1899 Texas. Pestiferous brothers. "The heat sapped the life out of everybody and everything."

"I hadn't appreciated before when I'd been there. But now before was where I wanted to be, before was where I wanted to live." "Hadn't I crossed the line where book knowledge helped?"

"I do think there is a limit to how much a person can feel and think on one particular day." "But Tuesdays will end when they will and not a moment before."

"There is nothing so final as turning around." "The only thing I wanted was what I could not have: my sister's company." "Isn't that what you want to hear? I am going home changed. I am a girl with a palatable attitude."

"I was beginning to understand how the past can seem more alive than the present."

Georgie is cross as all get out at The Prairie Traveller for not having a chapter on Getting rid of unwelcome guests #Billy McCabe. "Agatha is keeping company with Mr. Olmsted for his books."

Georgie is cross as all get out at The Prairie Traveller for not having a chapter on Getting rid of unwelcome guests #Billy McCabe. "Agatha is keeping company with Mr. Olmsted for his books."

Georgie is cross as all get out at The Prairie Traveller for not having a chapter on Getting rid of unwelcome guests #Billy McCabe. "Agatha is keeping company with Mr. Olmsted for his books."

"Pigeons come and go as they please. The way they'll come upon you will catch you unawares too... But whatever the configuration of pigeons that confronts you, when they leave, they are gone. Those birds move together - as if they have one mind and one set of wings."

"Pigeons come and go as they please. The way they'll come upon you will catch you unawares too... But whatever the configuration of pigeons that confronts you, when they leave, they are gone. Those birds move together - as if they have one mind and one set of wings."

Georgina Louise Burkhardt "born stubborn and stuck obstinate" knows the body brought back from Dog Hollow, Wisconsin, is not her sister Agatha. Georgie plans a trip to retrieve Agatha. Shortly before she left, Agatha told Georgie a story about the wise man and the White pigeon - "feather by feather he picked out his path".

"It was like I was in two places: what used to be and how it was now." "Storms did that; they moved on and went someplace else. Like I had to do."