Find quotes from this novel, with commentary from Shmoop. Pick a theme below to begin.
Family Quotes
"You look like me. I guess because you're made of me, like my spit is. Same brown eyes, same big mouth, same pointy chin…" (1.61)
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
Another rule is, the wide of the walls is the same as the wide of Floor, I count eleven feet going both ways, that means Floor is a square. (1.185)
Exploration Quotes
Then the wonderfulest thing, Mouse puts his mouth out, it's pointy. I nearly jump in the air but I don't, I stay extra still. (1.356)
The Home Quotes
"I'm from somewhere else, like [Alice]." (2.484)
Society and Class Quotes
Ma doesn't like Meltedy Spoon but he's my favorite because he's not the same. (1.52)
Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes
"Then I'd be hooked." "What's—?" "Like stuck on a hook, because I'd need [painkillers] all the time." (1.86-1.88)
Language and Communication Quotes
"Vast," says Ma. "Gigantic." "Massive." "Huge." "Enormous," says Ma. "Hugeormous." That's word sandwich when we squish two together. (1.124-1.129)
Fear Quotes
"Germs could make you die." (1.26)
Time Quotes
Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra. Before that I was three, then two, then one, then zero. "Wa...