Oh Newbery

Some favorite passages, quotes from Newbery books I have been reading....

"But before he could speak, Crane-man continued. 'Your mind knows that you are going to Songdo. But you must not tell your body. It must think one hill, one valley, one day at a time. In that way, your spirit will not grow weary before you have even begun to walk.' 'One day, one village. That is how you will go, my friend.' "

"How much slower the work went when the joy of it was gone."
"Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions."
-A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

" 'Sounder might come home again. But you must learn to lose, child. The Lord teaches the old to lose. The young don't know how to learn it. Some people is born to keep. Some is born to lose. We was born to lose, I recon. But Sounder might come back.' "-Sounder by William H. Armstrong

"Zero wasn't worried. 'When you spend your whole life living in a hole,' he said, 'the only way you can go is up.' "

"She ran to him. She wanted to throw her arms around him but couldn't bring herself to do it. Instead she hugged Mary Lou's neck.
'Is something wrong?' he asked her.
'Oh, Sam,' she said. 'My heart is breaking.'
'I can fix that,' said Sam.
She turned to him.
He took hold of both her hands, and kissed her.
Because of the rain, there was nobody else out on the street. Even if there was, Katherine and Sam wouldn't have noticed. They were lost in their own world."-Holes by Louis Sachar