The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn Quotes

“light of the street lamp. Behind him was the house of old Eagle Eye. It was completely dark.”
― John Bellairs, The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn

“get down to Front Street, Anthony never remembered. It was as if the whole thing were happening in a dream, as if some force outside himself were moving him around from place to place. All he knew was that sometime after he got dressed and slipped out of the house, he was down on Front Street and crouching behind a bush in the side yard of the old Winterborn place, shivering with the cold. And he was mad at himself because he hadn’t brought any tools with him. His heart was beating fast, and his body felt prickly all over. His blood was pounding in his ears. He felt very strange, but he was there,”
― John Bellairs, The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn

“Anthony stood staring at the library and thinking of all the wild stories he had heard about Alpheus T. Winterborn. He wondered if his mysterious treasure really did exist, and if it did—where? Then he snapped out of his trance and started walking again, and as he walked, he whistled a popular tune that was on the radio a lot. He stopped whistling as soon as he opened the front door of the library because,”
― John Bellairs, The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn