The ​Indian in the Cupboard (The Indian in the Cupboard 1.) 2 csillagozás

„Better enemy than alone in dark.”

129. oldal

„I'm not taking you. It's too risky.”
„Risky? Fire-water?”
„Not *whisky* – risky. Dangerous.”

108. oldal

The pain of sadness, disappointment, and a strange sort of guilt, burnt inside him as if he had swallowed a very hot potato which wouldn't cool down.

23. oldal

„[…] I've got to go to school.”
„What school?”
„A place where you learn.”
„Ah! Learn. Good,” said Little Bull approvingly. „Learn law of tribe, honour for ancestors, ways of the spirits?”
„Well…something like that.”

50-51. oldal

Young as he was, Omri knew that one woman and two men spelt trouble.

190. oldal

„A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew.”

156. oldal

Omri was not what you'd call a great reader. He couldn't get into books, somehow, unless he knew them already. And how, as his teacher never tired of asking, was he ever going to get to know any more books until he read them for the first time?

61-62. oldal

Omri let go of his arm and for a moment they looked at each other as if they'd been strangers. But they weren't strangers; theye were friends. That counts for a lot in this life.

99. oldal

It occurred to Omri for the first time that his idea of Red Indians, taken entirely from Western films, had been somehow false. After all, those had all been actors playing Indians, and afterwards wiping their war-paint off and going home for their dinners, not in tepees but in houses like this. Civilized men, pretending to be primitive, pretending to be cruel…
Little Bull was no actor. Omri swallowed hard. Thirty scalps…phew! Of course things were different in those days. Those tribes were always making war on each other, and come to that the English and French (whatever they thought they were doing, fighting in America) were probably no better, killing each other like mad as often as they could…
Come to *that*, weren't soldiers of today doing the same thing? Weren't there wars and battles and terrorism going on all over the place? You couldn't switch on television without seeing news about people killing and being killed…Was thirty scalps, even including some French ones, taken hundreds of years ago, so very bad after all?

39-40. oldal

„I'd rather go for a walk”, said Patrick.
„But what shall I do with the cupboard?” asked Omri desperately.
„Leave it empty”, said Patrick. „In case.”
He didn't say in case what. But he didn't have to. Just to know you *could*. That was enough.

202. oldal