Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery Quotes

“And having said that, I got up and stalked off to the school library, where I went looking for Little Women. It’s one of my favorite books, and I thought that reading some familiar passages might be comforting.”
― Ann M. Martin, Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery

“I just love checking our mailbox. There is something about getting mail that is exciting. Going out to the box each afternoon is sometimes the highlight of my day.”
― Ann M. Martin, Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery

“See, what we do,” Jackie said, “is glue these two boxes together to make the body. Then we put dials and stuff all over it — those are the jar lids and buttons and things. And then we make a robot head — well, a hat really — out of the little box. I want to put the Slinky on top of the hat.” “We better paint the boxes before you glue things on them,” Dawn pointed out. “Oh, right,” said Jackie. “But first, I have to make the body.” He got busy with the boxes and glue. He cut a neckhole. He cut two armholes. Then he cut himself. “Ow!”
― Ann M. Martin, Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery

“I’ve read enough Stephen King books to know that you don’t go fooling around with the supernatural.”
― Ann M. Martin, Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery

“The best way to get this point across is to describe to you what Claudia was wearing at lunch that day. It was her vegetable blouse: an oversized white shirt with a green vegetable print all over it — cabbages and squashes and turnips and stuff. Under the blouse was a very short jean skirt, white stockings, green anklets over the stockings, and lavender sneakers, the kind boys usually wear, with a lot of rubber and big laces and the name of the manufacturer in huge letters on the sides. Wait, I’m not done. Claudia had pulled the hair on one side of her head back with a yellow clip that looked like a poodle. The hair on the other side of her head was hanging in her face. Attached to the one ear you could see was a plastic earring about the size of a jar lid. Awesome.”
― Ann M. Martin, Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery