The Prophet of Yonwood Quotes

“It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“She started back down the trail. If no dogs find the food, she thought, maybe squirrels will. Or that white bear. Or if no one finds it, then it can all be for God. Only not for the Prophet's God, her mean, picky God who dislikes so many things. It's for my God, the god of dogs and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and who makes everything marvelous.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“All these words, written so long ago, seemed to say to her, Remember us. We were here. We were real.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Love is love, seems to me. As long as what you love isn't armed robbery, or bombing airplanes, or kidnapping little children." -Crystal”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“You should THINK about what's the right thing to do. Not just take someone's word for it" -Grover”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“...clearly not all these people who said that God spoke to them heard the same thing. All the fighting nations said God was on their side. How could God be on everyone's side?”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"

Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Nickie didn’t like listening to him because his voice always sounded too smooth.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Why did people always blame kids for things like this? As far as Grover could tell, grown-ups caused a lot more trouble in the world than kids.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“pressed up against the rear wall, half hidden by shirts and dresses dangling from hangers, was a tall, thin girl with wide, terrified eyes. Her hands were wrapped around the muzzle of a small, wildly squirming dog.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Nickie was so tired of the Crisis. It had been going on now for months. On TV and the radio, it was all you ever heard about: how Our Side and Their Side had come almost, but not quite, to the point of declaring all-out war. In the last week or so, the radio had started broadcasting frightening instructions every hour: “In the event of a declaration of war or a large-scale terrorist attack, cities will be evacuated in an orderly fashion…. Residents will be directed to safe locations…. Citizens should remain calm….”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“She flicked off the TV.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“I didn’t know your dad read Shakespeare.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“She couldn’t remember her mother ever making peanut butter cookies.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“P.S. Sure would like to have one of Rachel’s peanut butter cookies right now!”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Could it be that the more things you gave up, the stronger you would feel?”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Fine,” said his father. “You work on being good; I’ll keep the gun loaded.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“It’s for my God, the god of dogs and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and who makes everything marvelous.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“where the sun striped blue tree-trunk shadows across the snow.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“The rocking chair went, too, piled into the back of the truck like a prisoner being carted off to jail.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“My world is the heavens, both by day and by night.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“The Photograph and the Journal”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“She heard a scrape, and then a rustling sound.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Somehow she had done wrong by trying to do right.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Crystal didn’t like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“They wore old-fashioned outfits and had sour looks on their faces, as if they were annoyed with the photographer for making them sit still so long.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“Church of the Fiery Vision.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood

“blotches of blood looked more like a soupspoon than an R. Several people told him angrily to be quiet.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Prophet of Yonwood