Ellen Potter Quotes

• Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

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  Night, Roof Over Your Head, Interesting

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.58, Macmillan

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• All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

  Ellen Potter

  Travel, Adventure, Moments

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.248, Macmillan

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• Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

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  Memories, Matter, Stuff

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Jeremy used to hate it when she was younger because someone in her class told her redheads were freaks of nature.But our mother told her that redheads were genetically more courageous than other people and that she should always where her hair long,like a wariors badge of honor.

  Ellen Potter

  Mother, Hate, Hair

  Ellen Potter (2009). “Slob”, p.18, Penguin

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• It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

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  Adventure, People

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• People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.

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  Passion, Adventure, Should Have

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.131, Macmillan

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• A ellos [los Hardscrabbles] nunca les gustó que los adultos les mintieran juguetonamente. Los adultos siempre piensan que están siendo divertidos e imaginativos, como los niños. Pero los niños nunca mienten juguetonamente. Mienten como si su vida dependiera de ello.

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  Children, Lying, Kids

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.81, Macmillan

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• Give that man a Pixy Stix," Haddie said. "A what?" Lucia asked. "Hold on." She left then returned a moment later with a handful of colorful straws, one of which she threw at Max like a dart. He caught it in midair. That impressed Haddie and she tossed him another, just to see if he could do it again. He fumbled that one.

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  Men, Giving, Max

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.128, Macmillan

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