Twins Quotes

“Bianca and Mindy crept into the room like great big fashionable mice.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins

“You're whiplash," she whispered.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins

“Stop this, she thought. Stop this pitiful absurd train of thought! Some people become deadheads. Some people become glue freaks. Jon Pear is a tear collector. It's a little weird, but Madrigal loved him, so he's lovable.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins

“Is it a crime, she thought, to use some one else's funeral as your own? A crime to take over another's room and closet and life and cassettes and telephone number?”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins

“The Dean of Students walked swiftly down his wide stone steps, hand extended to shake theirs, as if congratulating them on the death of a twin.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins

“When Mary Lee awoke in the morning, she was in a vanilla-plain room, under crispy sheets, with white waffled blankets. Next to her bed was its identical twin. White and waffled. Waiting.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins

“Maddy, they said affectionately, come to our room and listen to tapes.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins

“I wish for Madrigal's life.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins

“If it had been a fairy tale, and one twin had said, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Fairest of Them All?" the mirror could have made no answer. For two qualified.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Twins