The Mighty Miss Malone Quotes

“There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Mighty Miss Malone

“. . . people use tricks to get you to think the way they do or take away something you have that they want. One way they do that is to interrupt your normal way of thinking and take you by the hand and guide you down the path they want you to take. Father says they make you take a teeny-weeny step in their direction, and then they start to nudge you a little further down the path and before you know it, you're running full speed with them in a direction that you probably wouldn't have gone alone.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Mighty Miss Malone

“You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you get to at least the end of the chapter”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Mighty Miss Malone

“Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you’re a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Mighty Miss Malone

“And I’d never heard Mother and Father argue before.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Mighty Miss Malone

“She says she bets you could pour cornflakes in his dimple and eat them out with a spoon.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Mighty Miss Malone