The Penderwicks Collection Quotes

“Skye, no one except you believes in the possibility of Batty blowing up.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“What rhymes with smile?” “Bile, as in Your smile makes me want to throw up.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Ladies and dogs,” said Jeffrey, “we are about to perform ‘Fanfare for the Uncommon Seal.’ ” “With apologies to Aaron Copland,”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Woof,” he said sadly. “Poor Hound,” said Batty. “Poor Hound, indeed.” Mr. Penderwick was not sympathetic. “Even he should know not to eat towels.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Mendax, mendax, bracae tuae conflagrant,”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Aunt Claire, may I ask you a question?” “Ask away, young Jedi.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“CHAPTER ONE
A Boy at the Window FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THAT SUMMER, the four Penderwick sisters still talked of Arundel. Fate drove us there, Jane would say. No, it was the greedy landlord who sold our vacation house on Cape Cod, someone else would say, probably Skye. Who knew which was right? But it was true that the beach house they usually rented had been sold at the last minute, and the Penderwicks were suddenly without summer plans. Mr. Penderwick called everywhere, but Cape Cod was booked solid, and his daughters were starting to think they would be spending their whole vacation at home in Cameron, Massachusetts. Not that they didn’t love Cameron, but what is summer without a trip to somewhere special? Then, out of the blue, Mr. Penderwick heard through a friend of a friend about a cottage in the Berkshire Mountains. It had plenty of bedrooms and a big fenced-in pen for a dog—perfect for big, black, clumsy, lovable Hound Penderwick—and it was available to be rented for three weeks in August. Mr. Penderwick snatched it up, sight unseen. He didn’t know what he was getting us into, Batty would say. Rosalind always said, It’s too bad Mommy never saw Arundel—she would have loved the gardens. And Jane would say, There are much better gardens in heaven. And Mommy will never have to bump into Mrs. Tifton in heaven, Skye added to make her sisters laugh. And laugh they would, and the talk would move on to other things, until the next time someone remembered Arundel.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Is this his eye or his tooth?” asked Aunt Claire, waving around another puzzle piece.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“revealing Jane in all her blood-soaked glory,”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“She sat down again. “Oh, Dominic, love has no measure.” “What?” “I mean, yes, please kiss me.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“I did know a girl in middle school who made hand puppets from her boyfriends’ socks,” said Aunt Claire. “I don’t know if she talked to the puppets, but she did make the puppets talk to her.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Jane easily dribbled around her. “HA! MAD COW! YOU’RE ALL MAD COWS!” “AND YOU’RE A”—shouted Melissa furiously—“YOU’RE A MADDER COW!”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“She discussed this with Hound when they were alone, and it bothered him, too.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“He leaned down and bravely kissed her on the cheek. “Don’t forget. You’re waiting for me until we’re both thirteen.” She just as bravely kissed him back. “I won’t forget.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Do you think she’ll want to later? Rosalind, I mean, not Aunt Claire. I mean, I’m sure Aunt Claire could do football drills if she wanted to, but I’d rather have Ros—I mean…” Tommy had trailed off into an embarrassed silence. Skye”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Tommy was nowhere in sight, and though she waited for a few minutes, he didn’t reappear.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“her throat.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Ros—”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Qui, quae, quod,” said Rosalind. “Cuius, cuius, cuius.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Batty believes that Gardam Street needs continual surveillance,”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“grown-ups”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“agricola, agricolae,”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“All the stories are wonderful, except maybe the ones about Dominic.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“Tooth, I guess.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette