Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara Quotes

“Kiron. “We”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“scared as I was, I had been hoping that something interesting might be inside.”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“Huge piles of books were stacked precariously on all sides.”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“A hazy beam of gray light came into the space from a single window, and the dust danced in the air in its dull glow.”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“She eyed me cautiously, as if she was trying to determine how to dismantle a not-entirely-lethal bomb.”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“I was officially abandoned.”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“fumed hotter than the fast-rising oven-temperature of the car interior.”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“Grandma either heard the car coming down the drive or smelled the dust in the air, because she was standing in the doorway when we finally pulled up to the front of the house. Her belly, wrapped in a faded, flowered apron, preceded her down the porch steps as she walked out to meet us.”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“I didn’t want to go. I mean I really didn’t want to go. I had tried every trick I could think of to get out of spending the entire summer at the old lady’s farm. But Mom hadn’t been swayed a single millimeter by my whining, my yelling, or my threats to purposely flunk out of seventh grade next year if she didn’t send me somewhere, anywhere, else.”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara

“madman, trying to solve a riddle that didn’t exist. I had”
― J.B. Cantwell, Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara