The Girls' Revenge Quotes

“But . . . but what will we talk about? We can’t just sit here staring at each other and stuffing cookies in our mouths!” Beth had protested, and Caroline noticed that her cheeks were strangely pink.
“Why, Beth, we’ll talk about whatever comes to mind. With eleven people in a room, it shouldn’t be hard to think of something to say.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Girls' Revenge

“Boys fell for so many things you wouldn’t think they’d believe. It was really incredible. None of her friends back home had been quite so stupid.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Girls' Revenge

“Mother went back inside when the police had gone, but Dad did not. Instead he walked to the edge of the porch, cupped his hands over his mouth, and bellowed like a bull moose. “Wallace, Joshua, and Joseph! Get in here! Now!”
“You want to spend the night in the woods?” Wally whispered to his brothers.
“He’d just come looking for us,” said Josh.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Girls' Revenge

“Well, I know what I want to be too,” she told her parents. “An actress on Broadway.”
“Caroline, you’re always onstage, twenty-four hours a day,” said her father. “You can’t even tie your shoes without making a production of it.”
Caroline wasn’t sure if that was a compliment or not.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Girls' Revenge