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Life is very strange.

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Why am I a loser? She sat very still.
Because it pleases my father.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Shy people are angry people,

YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT.

Life is a struggle and a good spy goes in there and fights.

Harriet: Is it fun being married?
Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know.

All I ask of in the world is just one day after another with nothing planned.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

People who love work, love life.

It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.

I'm going to take you somewhere. It's time you began to see the world. You're eleven years old and it's time you saw something.

Writers don't care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

I WONDER IF WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT SOMEBODY THEY DREAM ABOUT YOU.

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

This was too much. I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.

Harriet: How do you practice being an onion?