The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden Quotes

“Being in a garden makes we want to dance! -Laney”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“Music makes a garden bloom. -Isa”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“Hyacinth is still obsessed with Anne of Green Gables, huh?” Benjamin observed. “Yup.” Auntie Harrigan had given Hyacinth the audiobook for her birthday back in February, and since then, Hyacinth had listened to it from beginning to end at least thirteen times and could recite full passages from it.”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“Jessie recited the periodic table over and over again by memory,”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“wags per minute, or wpm,”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“Happiness is spending a day in the garden with friends. ~Hyacinth”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“Three days before the Garden Extravaganza, the Vanderbeekers walked to the garden to find the sidewalk in front of the gate filled with plants. There were two big pots of bright blue hydrangeas, four filled with peach-colored roses, a small tree with a scattering of green leaves, and twenty pots of lavender. Laney ran to the tree and hugged it. Hyacinth leaned over to smell the roses. Jessie and Oliver noticed ribbons attached to notes on some of the branches. As they peered at the cards, Orlando arrived carrying”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“Mama's face hardened when she saw what Mr. Beiderman was holding. "Mr. Beiderman, you cannot keep eating that!" She grabbed the metal tins of SPAM and glared at the nutritional information. "Sixteen grams of fat in two ounces!" She tossed the tins into the trash as if they had said rude words to her.
Mr. Beiderman immediately went on the defensive. "I'm perfectly healthy."
"Ha!" Mama said. "You haven't seen your doctor in six years!" She grabbed the spare set of keys to Mr. Beiderman's apartment from a nail on the wall next to the laundry room and tossed it to Papa, who caught it cleanly in one hand.
"I'm on it!" Papa said, jogging up the stairs.
"Don't you dare get rid of my SPAM!" Mr. Beiderman yelled.
"Sorry! General's orders," Papa called out before the stairwell closed.”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“I smell that meat-in-a-tin stuff," Laney reported, making a face.
"Oooh," Hyacinth said as she wagged a finger at Mr. Beiderman. "Mama is going to be mad at you!"
"You have no proof," Mr. Beiderman retorted. "That's just the smell of...turpentine. For my paintings."
"Uh-huh," Laney said, disbelieving. "I know that meat smell when I smell it.”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“Maybe, Oliver thought, maybe the world worked only if people gave all they could without measuring the worth of what they gave.”
― Karina Yan Glaser, Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“She felt Mr. Beiderman's shaky breathes, and she wondered how his lungs could keep drawing in air even though he'd lost the two people le loved most in the world.”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“Keep calm and garden on! -Oliver”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“A garden should always have a party in it. -Jessie”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“tryptophan molecule.”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” —Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden