The Girl With The Silver Eyes Quotes
"I had to stay up for hours last night, redoing all those papers that brat walked on, and I overslept."
"She never cries! At first I was terrified that there was something wrong with her—mentally, I mean."
"When she wanted to move something, the compulsion was too strong to resist; usually, she’d already done it by the time she thought about the consequences."
"Kids had to resign themselves to all kinds of things they didn’t really like."
"It was lonely, being the only one like herself."
"Who else could she be, Katie wondered. She walked around the living room, peering through the sliding glass doors."
"She supposed there wouldn’t be any where they were going."
"It wasn’t easy to talk to Monica. Katie told herself that since Monica was her mother, they ought to love each other, especially now if they were going to live together again."
"Maybe if you had brothers and sisters, they wouldn’t think you were so peculiar they didn’t want anything to do with you. And at least there’d be people around; it wouldn’t be so lonely."
"Ever since she could remember, she had taken it for granted that she was different from other people."
"It hadn’t occurred to her that something might have happened to make her different."
"It’s hard work to keep pretending all the time."
"She was looking for birth announcements, personal letters from any of the people in the picture of the drug company employees, that sort of thing."
"Katie had never been in Millersville, but she’d heard of it."
"People get ideas, these days, about strange men and little girls."
"She wondered if there was a map anywhere in the apartment, so she could see how far away it was."
"It didn’t make up for being so different that nobody wanted to be her friend."
"People were scared off because she didn’t seem or look the way they thought she ought to."
"Nothing like a good tan, he said, to impress the females."
"you could always tell; a person stunk of tobacco even when he wasn’t actually smoking."
"She wasn’t sure why, but she was convinced that the reason was terrible."
"The conviction that Mr. C. had moved into The Cedars Apartments for one reason: to ask questions about Katie, herself."
"She was proud of herself, that she’d remembered to do it with her finger."
"He wasn’t very good at it, but Katie thought it would be best if there was no commotion while she was aboard."
"When an ugly little cur came dashing out at her, yapping furiously, from the porch of a big, comfortable-looking house, Katie decided it was time to find out for certain if she could communicate with dogs as well as cats."
""Go back on the porch at once," Katie told him, "or I’ll bring the dog catcher to pick you up and put you in the pound.""
"Well, at least wait until someone steps on your property. Don’t bark at people on the sidewalk."
"She knew him at once, because his eyes looked just like hers."
"Maybe cats, a little. Can you read people’s?"
"Nobody could lock you up because of the color of your eyes, could they?"
"If only she knew how Monica would react if someone came after her."
"They make fun of you, but they aren’t afraid of you."
"My dad was reading the Sunday paper, and it flew all over the room."
"You don’t care about anything but your stupid ball-games."
"And then, unexpectedly, Mr. P. climbed out of the passenger side of the car, struggling with two heavy bags of groceries."
"She forgot to set her parking brake," he said under his breath. "I’ll bet all of us together could move her car. We could roll it right forward into the next parking slot."
"Maybe we could help him get his groceries inside. They look pretty heavy. Maybe he’d appreciate the help."
"It’s so exciting to be working with three other kids as a team."
"That would probably make it worse. I mean, if the kids don’t like one peculiar person, how would they react to four of us?"
"Knowing I’m not the only one. And there could be more, couldn’t there? Maybe we could find more of us, if we really tried."
"We’d never let anyone do that, darling. Never."
"It’s a place where we investigate children like you, and teach them. We’re all learning together, actually."
"Our school is for children who are genuinely blessed with extraordinary powers. We want to help them learn how to develop their powers to the greatest extent."
"But if we’re all kept apart, in a special school, won’t we still be freaks? People know the kids at your school are different, don’t they?"
"Children—at least young children—need to have a normal family life, don’t they? Even if they are . . . special."
"Could you tell? Read Mr. C.’s mind? Is it on the level? Or is it like Kerri said? They want to study us like bugs?"
"Whatever happened now, Katie thought, just for herself, she didn’t believe she was ever going to be lonesome again."