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Phantom Tollbooth Quotations 2

Match the quotes with the "person" who said them, from Chapters 11 through 20. Click on the square to read the entire quote at the bottom.

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"What a marvelous rest. I feel as though I'd slept for a week."Chroma
"...most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you."Alec Bings
"Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?"Kakofonous A. Dischord
"It doesn't make me happy to hold back the sounds, for if we listen to them carefull they can sometimes tell us things far better than words."The Soundkeeper
"They all came over the hill at once and none of them are awful enough for me."The DYNNE
"For you can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time."The Soundkeeper
"I'm as smart as can be, and I'm as stupid as can be."Canby
"But from now on I;m going to have a very good reason before I make up my mind about anything. You can lose too much time jumping to Conclusions."Milo
"You'll soon wear it out using it for everything."The Dodecahedron
"We use the broken ones for fractions."The Mathemagician
"I often find that the best way to get from one place to another is to erase everything and begin again."The Mathemagician
"If you want to buy, I'm sure I can arrange to sell, but with what you're doing you'll probably end up in a cell anyway."The Everpresent Wordsnatcher
"If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult."The Terrible Trivium
"I don't mean what I say, I don't mean what I do, and I don't mean what I am."The demon of insincerity
"If it's one thing I can't swallow, it's ideas: they're so hard to digest."The Gelatinous Giant
"For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."Princess of Pure Reason
"It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters."Princess of Sweet Rhyme
"What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do."Princess of Pure Reason
"Well, I would like to make another trip, but I really don't know when I'll have the time. There's just so much to do right here."Milo


Seoul Foreign Elementary School
Seoul, South Korea

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