Take Your Last Breath Quotes

“Excuse me while I yawn.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“You look like someone just ran over your goldfish.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“Ruby's heart sank. The broken clasp. Not only had she let go of the one thing that might have saved her life, but she had also neatly tipped off the Count as to her whereabouts. That's why he had retraced his steps. That's why he had found her. RULE 7: DON'T FORGET THE LITTLE THINGS -
IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT WILL LEAD PEOPLE TO NOTICE THE BIG THINGS, or as Mrs Digby would no doubt say, A stitch in time saves you a whole lot of bother later on.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“She went over to where the kitchen phone sat, picked up the receiver and dialled a number she had dialled approximately several thousand times.
'Hey bozo, meet me, usual place, just as soon as.' She replaced the receiver.
'And they say the art of conversation is dead,' commented Hitch, shaking out the newspaper.
Mrs Digby looked at Ruby and shook her head. It's a crying shame,' she said. 'All life's good manners and fine etiquette gone to the pot. I tried to raise this child a nice child, but I probably got to accept failure here.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“Agent Kip Holbrook was Ruby's in-training dive partner and the two of them spent a whole lot of time winding each other up.
'Redfort, you call that a punch - I coulda sworn I just got patted on the nose by a plankton.'
'Holbrook, you call that a nose - I coulda sworn I just spotted a rare and ugly sea cucumber.'
They got along like a house on fire.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“But what were you doing?' asked her father.
'Looking for the Fairbank rubies,' said Ruby merrily. 'The Count tried to kill me with jellyfish, but you know what? I found them anyway and then he tried to kill me with an octopus.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“One of the most common codes used across the planet is binary or digital code.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“So,' said Ruby, 'tell me gain, what exactly happened out there?'
'Oh, come on Rube!' said her mother laughing. 'We've told you around four times!'
But Ruby couldn't get enough of the story - she was kind of proud that her parents had survived such a dicey situation. There was of course another reason for wanting to hear it over and over; it was RULE 14: VERY OFTEN PEOPLE NEGLECT TO TELL THE MOST IMPORTANT DETAIL.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“I guess you're referring to Chime Melody?'
Froghorn wrinkled his nose, evidently surprised that she was aware of the Chime situation. 'Oh, I'm sorry, no insult intended,' he said, not the merest hint of apology in his voice. Apparently, you're a listener?'
'Sure, I listen,' said Ruby. 'It's important to have an open mind, otherwise one walks around like one knows it all when one is actually a total potato head, no insult intended.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“Hitch was sitting at the kitchen table, polishing some silverware and looking for all the world like an actual butler.
'I think you may be getting too into your cover story,' said Ruby, her nose in the refrigerator, searching for the juice.
Hitch shrugged. 'Mrs Digby runs a tight ship.'
'Yeah, ,but she already believes you're a butler; you don't need to make out you're the best entire one to ever polish forks on this earthly universe of Twinford.'
'And I don't want her thinking I'm a lousy one either. My life wouldn't be worth living kid.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“So have you considered that these accounts could all be bogus? I mean some of the people who reported it a re just little kids,' continue the first agent.
'Yes,' said Kekoa, 'But I consider it unwise to disregard them just because I, just because you, have no personal experience of them.'
Ruby couldn't agree more strongly with this statement. There were people who made wild claims about spotting aliens and spacecraft, and there were other people who claimed that this was nonsense and aliens and spacecraft didn't exist, but either way what you had to accept was that these people had seen something. RULE 5; REMEMBER, THERE IS MORE TO LEARN THAN YOU CAN EVER KNOW.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“If Sergeant Cooper wasn't impressed by Ruby's time-keeping, then her flouting of the camp dress code really got him marching up and down. His least favourite item was a T-shirt printed with the words: could you repeat that? I wasn't actually listening.
'Redfort, how many times have I told you about that T-shirt of yours?'
'I'm sorry Sergeant Cooper, I haven't been counting, but I can take a wild guess if it's important to you.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath

“If you do come face to face with one of our ocean friends,' continued the dive instructor, 'then just stay where you are, don't back away. If it comes toward you, then swim toward it. He'll probably get the message.'
'Oh yeah,' said Ruby. 'And what message is that?'
'That you aren't lunch - lunch usually swims in the other direction,' said the dive instructor with a wink.
'And what if this shark ain't so smart?' asked Ruby. 'What then?'
'Then,' said the dive master, 'it will probably try to explore you with its teeth - that's how they check things out, only you don't really want them to do so as it could mean waving bye-bye to an arm or a leg.'
'Well, I kinda need my arms for waving - my legs sorta tend to come in handy too,' said Ruby.”
― Lauren Child, Take Your Last Breath