The School for Whatnots Quotes

“Eventually it’s not good for anyone to be so carefully protected. Adults can debate endlessly about which age is right for which revelation. How old were you when you found out about death? How old were you when you found out where babies come from? How old were you when you found out that life’s not fair? How old were you the first time you tried to do something right and had it turn out completely wrong, or you hurt someone’s feelings by mistake . . . or you just wanted to do something you knew was bad?”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, The School for Whatnots

“She’d just thought that the other kids didn’t feel as strongly as she did about the ending of The One and Only Ivan, or about the fact that sharks average fifteen rows of teeth in each jaw, or about anything else.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, The School for Whatnots