I've decided to change the name of my Quotes to Annabelle Says, because chances are, I'll be posting quotes from someone other than Tallulah. This month's quote is from The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall, a book I'm reading in school.
"What I mean is," she went on, "well, I don't think it's doors or cloaks or...or orange sashes. It's us. What I mean is, it's no matter what color we paint our doors or what kind of clothes we wear, we're...well, we're those colors inside us. Instead of being green inside, you see, like other folk. So I don't think maybe it would do any good if we just changed our outside color. We would still be...be orange or scarlet inside, and, well, we would do orange and scarlet things all the time, and everyone would still-"
"Really!" said Eng. "She is simple!"
"Yes, I know," Muggles agreed. "Everybody always says so. But what I really want to say is, wouldn't it be cheating if we changed our outsides just for the judges? I mean, it doesn't seem quite fair, does it?" She tried to think of something more to explain, but her brain was already dizzy from it's exertion. She sat down.
"Good sense," Mingy said suddenly. "Most sense I've heard today. Me, I like green. Good sensible color. Doesn't show dirt. Don't have to wash it to pieces, waste soap and water. How would I like it if somebody came along and said I had to wear yellow now? Wouldn't do it. Don't know what color I am inside. Don't think I'm green, though. Probably a good sensible brown. Doesn't show the dirt. But whatever color it is, I'm not going to change it for all the judges in the Land Between the Mountains."
- Muggles and Mingy, pages 112-113, The Gammage Cup.
Annabelle
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