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It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Writers don't care what they eat. They just care what you think of them -- Louise Fitzhugh
SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I KNOW IT. EVERY TIME I HAD A BAD DREAM I FEEL LIKE LEAVING TOWN. THEN I FEEL THAT SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN. AND THIS IS THE WORST DREAM I'VE EVER HAD IN MY WHOLE LIFE. -- Louise Fitzhugh
WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth -- Louise Fitzhugh
Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth. -- Louise Fitzhugh
I'm going to take you somewhere. It's time you began to see the world. You're eleven years old and it's time you saw something. -- Louise Fitzhugh
THERE IS MORE TO THIS THING OF LOVE THAN MEETS THE EYE. I AM GOING TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS A GREAT DEAL BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL GET ME ANYWHERE. I THINK MAYBE THEY'RE ALL RIGHT WHEN THEY SAY THERE ARE DOME THINGS I WON'T KNOW ABOUT UNTIL I'M OLDER. -- Louise Fitzhugh
If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere. -- Louise Fitzhugh
[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it. -- Louise Fitzhugh
People who love work, love life. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down. -- Louise Fitzhugh
I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn. -- Louise Fitzhugh
If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?'
'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.'
'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town. -- Louise Fitzhugh
This was too much. I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion. -- Louise Fitzhugh
All I ask of in the world is just one day after another with nothing planned. -- Louise Fitzhugh
I think maybe they're all right when they say there are some things I won't know anything about until I'm older. But if [love] makes you like to eat all kinds of wurst I'm not sure I'm going to like this. -- Louise Fitzhugh
YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT. -- Louise Fitzhugh
When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy -- Louise Fitzhugh
She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you.
Harriet, on what Ole Golly says -- Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet: How do you practice being an onion? -- Louise Fitzhugh
There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger. -- Louise Fitzhugh
It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet: Is it fun being married?
Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Shy people are angry people, -- Louise Fitzhugh
Life is a struggle and a good spy goes in there and fights. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Why am I a loser? She sat very still.
Because it pleases my father. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Life is very strange. -- Louise Fitzhugh
LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE? -- Louise Fitzhugh
There are as many ways to live as there are people. -- Louise Fitzhugh
I WONDER IF WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT SOMEBODY THEY DREAM ABOUT YOU. -- Louise Fitzhugh