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??? {Mystery Quote #8} ???

“Mystery Quote” time again! 🙂

Last week’s quote came from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Wow.  I finally managed to ‘stump’ you guys (to quote Leah 🙂 ).  Though that part of the book doesn’t have a lot to do with the problems being faced in the rest of the books and was left out of the movies, and isn’t as popular.  Also, like I said, the second character only comes in in that chapter, so that probably threw some people off.  Anyway, our next quote:

But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.

Hmm. . . this might be a hard one too.  I know it’s a popular book though!  Happy guessing!

 

P.S.  Click here to read Spencer’s Memorial Day post.  Just sayin’, it’s really good!

P.P.S.  You should totally watch this!  “Jesus Loves Me” in Chinese, with a little cartoon to go with it.  It’s so cute!  There’s also English, Spanish, and Russian versions by the same people you could look for.

??? {Mystery Quote #7} ???

Number seven!  Sorry I didn’t get around to posting this sooner.  Better late than never, I guess.  But anyway,

Last week’s quote was from Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski.  The first [she] was ‘Essie’ and the second was ‘Birdie’.

Ellen, Becca, and Katie got it right.  This week’s quote is a departure from historical fiction, by the way.

‘If I hear not allowed much oftener,’ said Sam, ‘I’m going to get angry.’  ‘Can’t say as I’d be sorry to see it,’ said Robin lowering his voice.  ‘If we all got angry together something might be done.’

Hint: I decided to leave in the names this time, because they're pretty stereotypical; but the second person only comes in in one chapter, so you might not recognize it.

Happy guessing!

??? {Mystery Quote #6} ???

New header.  Do you guys feel like I change that too much?  And can you believe we’ve done SIX “Mystery Quote”‘s already?  I can’t.  I wonder how many we’ll get to before I finish The Sacrifice.  .  .

Anyways:

Last week’s quote was from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.  The ‘she’ is Jo, and the ‘he’ was a replacement for ‘the literal Demi’.

I really wanted to keep the ‘literal’ part in, but I don’t think ‘the literal [he]’ is good grammar, even with the he in brackets. 🙂  Anyways, Ellen got the title and the names right.  Brownie points for being the only one. 🙂

I decided to do two quotes this time:

“Jeff done tole me,” said [she].  Although she was only seven, she was not afraid of her father.  “They been here most a month already.  They come in a big wagon.  They moved in while you was away, Pa.  We watched ’em unload.”

And,

“She don’t like cowmen,” said [she].  “They brag too much.  And neither do I.”

Happy guessing!

Hint: The she's are two different people. I decided 'Jeff' was a common enough name to leave. (Also, let's go ahead and make a rule that you can always guess what's in the brackets. Sound good?)

Do you like my little ‘hint’ box?  I’ve known how make boxes that for a while, but I never found a good time to use it.  It’s kinda’ fun! 🙂

Happy Tuesday!

??? {Mystery Quote #5} ???

There were all these things that I was going to post over the weekend–or the four days between “Mystery Quote” and book reviews–but in the end I just ended up posting the last part of my story for Module 8–even though none of you would admit that you thought I posted too much.  Somehow some of those just weren’t posting days, so I didn’t post.  Did that make any sense?  Probably not.  Ah well.

So here we are with “Mystery Quote” again and,

Last week’s quote was from The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes.  You can read my book review of it here.  Juliana guessed both the book, and that the ‘she’ was Maddie.  Great job!

Sounds like several of you had read the book, but didn’t catch this one.  I’ve found you have to know a book really well to be able to recognize an individual quote from it!  Leah‘s done all kinds of quotes from books I’ve read that I didn’t get because I’d only read it once!

Yes, I read a lot of books twice. . . or three times. . . or four. . . or five. . . or six. . . or seven. . . etc. #I’mWeirdLikeThat

Anyway, this week’s quote:

    “You precious chick!  Who put that into your head?” said [she]. . .  “‘Tisn’t in mine head; it’s in mine mouf,” answered [he], putting out his tongue, with a chocolate drop on it, thinking she alluded to confectionery, not ideas.

Happy guessing! 🙂

P.S. Speaking of quotes, I have a new favorite from Flower Patch Farmgirl:

I’m way inside my head and it’s all fine and well, but I’m going to have to eventually come out. It can get a little wonky in here.

Yeah. 🙂

Happy Tuesday!

??? {Mystery Quote #4} ???

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Mama and Michael made home-made chocolates yesterday.

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Michael made up a chocolates-song to sing.

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It had one word: “chocolates.” #ThreeYearOld 🙂

Anyway,

Last week’s “Mystery Quote” was from Prophet by R.J. Larson.  Spencer, Ellen, Savannah, and Skylar all got it right.  The name in the brackets was “Ela” and Savannah and Skylar got it right.

Four people?  Phew!  I think that’s a record!  Oh! I came up with something to mention:

If you look up the quote in the book, your guess still counts.  You still had to guess which book to look in.

Just thought I would clarify that.  I’ve looked up several quotes from Leah’s blog!  Now for this week’s quote:

[She] remembered that because afterwards it didn’t seem like bright blue weather anymore, although the weather had not changed in the slightest.

Go ahead and guess what name is in the brackets.

Good luck!

 

 

* pictures are from a different chocolates-making.

??? {Mystery Quote #3} ???

Phew!  It’s been two weeks!  Did any of you guess during that bonus week?  Anyway:

Last week’s quote came from The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien.  Ellen and Becca guessed the right author–and fantasy world! 🙂 (You’re first guess was right, Ellen.)

I was going to include this part of the quote:

Elves know a lot and are wondrous folk for news, and know what is going on among the peoples of the lands, as quick as water flows, or quicker. (50)

But ‘elves’ definitely would have had to go, and what in the world do you put in the brackets?  [they]?  I don’t know.  So I just cut it off.  Now, for this week’s quote:

A gift.  Was it?  [She] hunched over and hid her face in her ash-smeared hands, resisting the impulse to bang her forehead on the aged stone floor.  And yet… and yet… if she refused, would she ever hear His voice again?

I think this is a pretty obvious one for those of you who have read the book, but maybe not.  It also probably doesn’t make any sense if you haven’t! 🙂

Happy guessing, as Leah would say!

??? {Mystery Quote #2} ???

Time for another one of these!  Wow, that week flew by!  Okay:

Last week’s quote was from Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis.  The missing names, in order, where: Peter, Edmond, Susan.

Savannah and Ellen got it right, and Ellen guessed the names.  Good job guys! 🙂

Okay, this week’s quote:

Also he would have liked to have a few private words with these people that seemed to know his names and all about him, although he had never seen them before.  He thought their opinion of his adventure might be interesting. (50)

I was going to put a longer quote in, but I would have had to edit out something and I’m not quite sure what I would have put in the brackets, so I just cut it off there.

Happy Tuesday, guys!  Have fun!

P.S. I finished my next science story today, but I’m waiting to post it until some of my family members can read it–actually, I just wanted to do another “Mystery Quote”! 🙂

??? {Mystery Quote #1} ???

Hi, guys!  It’s Tuesday!!! 🙂

I’m SUPER excited!

Okay, let me explain what “Mystery Quote” is.  For those of you who read “Leah’s Bookshelf” it’s essentially “Guess a Quote” called something different.  Thank you for inspiring me, Leah!  “Guess a Quote” is my favorite part of your blog! 🙂

So: for those of you who don’t read Leah Good’s blog, let me explain: I’ll be posting on Tuesdays.  Once a week I will post a quote without saying what book it’s from.  You guys guess what book it’s from and post your guess in the comments.

Leah edits the title and author out of the comments, but I’m too lazy to do that, so please come up with your guess before you look at the other comments.  Thanks!

I’m not sure how long I’ll be doing this–at least until my next science story (which I’m having a lot of fun with, by the way!), but I’ll probably keep doing it until The Sacrifice, and then I’ll most likely keep doing it in between stories.

Leah puts the date in her titles, but I’ve never really held with dates (except birthdays) so I’m going to number them.  Also, that way if someone finds one of these posts, they know to search for number *** to find the next one, if they don’t recognize the quote! 🙂

Okay, almost ready!  A few more things: I’m starting with a book that I think most of you have read, but as we go on I might branch off a little, just to see who’s read what.  Oh! and I’m doing two quotes this week.  I might not always.  I will try to usually have one.  I really should do it ‘normal’ the first week, but it was such a good book I couldn’t help myself! 🙂

Okay, let’s go:

“… you’re a hero,” said [he].  “That’s the nearest you’ve got today to saying I told you so.

And

She was not enjoying her match half so much as [he] had enjoyed his; not because she had any doubt about hitting the apple but because [she] was so tender-hearted that she almost hated to beat someone who had been beaten already.

The brackets was just to edit out names that would have been pretty big give-aways!  (I got that from Leah too! 🙂 )

Alright, do you know the book???