The Indian in the Cupboard Quotes

“the fun of keeping things in them. He was not a very tidy boy in general, but he did like arranging things in cupboards and drawers and then opening them later and finding them just as he’d left them.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Omri refused to get involved in an argument. He was somehow scared that if he talked about the Indian, something bad would happen. In fact, as the day went on and he longed more and more to get home, he began to feel certain that the whole incredible happening—well, not that it hadn’t happened, but that something would go wrong. All his thoughts, all his dreams were centered on the miraculous, endless possibilities opened up by a real, live, miniature Indian of his very own. It would be too terrible if the whole thing turned out to be some sort of mistake.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Funny to think that he would certainly have done it, only a week ago, without thinking about the dangers.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Beard,” said Patrick, which was their school slang for “I don’t believe you.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“FACT The Native Americans invented the game lacrosse.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Little Bear looked at him steadily and nodded. Omri opened the flap and Indian and horse stepped out into the morning sunlight.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“He was just under three inches tall. His blue-black hair, done in a plait and pressed to his head by a colored headband, gleamed in the sun. So did the minuscule muscles of his tiny naked torso, and the skin of his arms. His legs were covered with buckskin leggings, which had some decoration on them too small to see properly. He wore a kind of bandolier across his chest and his belt seemed to be made of several strands of some shiny white beads. Best of all, somehow, were his moccasins.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“You touch—I kill!” the Indian growled ferociously.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“He stood pressed against the inside wall of the cupboard, clutching his knife, rigid with terror, but defiant.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Now he closed his eyes and unwished the test pass and wished instead that this little twisty key would turn Gillon’s present into a secret cupboard.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Inside was a small white metal cupboard with a mirror in the door, the kind you see over the basin in old-fashioned bathrooms.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Omri and Patrick had spent many hours together playing with their joint collections of plastic toys.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“soldiers”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“flummoxed.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“incredulously.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“cut”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“soap”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“shoulder.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“here!”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“outa”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Patrick had reached the food slot now, and received his dinner.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard

“Hell,”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard