Lizzie Bisco Quotes in The City of Ember
“Is it true about the light bulbs?”
“Is what true?”
“That there aren’t very many left?”
Lizzie shrugged. “I don’t know. They hardly ever let us go down into the storerooms. All we see are the reports the carriers turn in— [...]
“But when you see the report for the light bulb rooms, what does it say?”
“I never get to see that one,” said Lizzie. “That one, and a few other ones like the vitamin report, only a few people can see.”
And if the cans hadn’t come from a market, where had they come from? There was only one answer: they had come from the storerooms. Somehow, Lizzie had gotten them because she worked in the storeroom office. Had she paid for them? How much? Or had she taken them without paying?
“And Lizzie—he isn’t just stealing things for you. He has a store! He steals things and sells them for huge prices!”
“He does not,” said Lizzie, but she looked worried.
“He does. I know because I bought something from him just a few weeks ago. He has a whole box of colored pencils.”
“Looper says it’s all going to be gone soon anyway, why not live as well as we can right now?”
“But Lizzie, why should you get all that? Why you and not other people?”
“Because we found it. Because we can get at it.”
“I don’t think it’s fair,” said Lina.
Lizzie spoke as if she were talking to a not-very-bright child. “You can have some, too. That’s what I’m telling you.”
Lizzie Bisco Quotes in The City of Ember
“Is it true about the light bulbs?”
“Is what true?”
“That there aren’t very many left?”
Lizzie shrugged. “I don’t know. They hardly ever let us go down into the storerooms. All we see are the reports the carriers turn in— [...]
“But when you see the report for the light bulb rooms, what does it say?”
“I never get to see that one,” said Lizzie. “That one, and a few other ones like the vitamin report, only a few people can see.”
And if the cans hadn’t come from a market, where had they come from? There was only one answer: they had come from the storerooms. Somehow, Lizzie had gotten them because she worked in the storeroom office. Had she paid for them? How much? Or had she taken them without paying?
“And Lizzie—he isn’t just stealing things for you. He has a store! He steals things and sells them for huge prices!”
“He does not,” said Lizzie, but she looked worried.
“He does. I know because I bought something from him just a few weeks ago. He has a whole box of colored pencils.”
“Looper says it’s all going to be gone soon anyway, why not live as well as we can right now?”
“But Lizzie, why should you get all that? Why you and not other people?”
“Because we found it. Because we can get at it.”
“I don’t think it’s fair,” said Lina.
Lizzie spoke as if she were talking to a not-very-bright child. “You can have some, too. That’s what I’m telling you.”
