- Kit Kittredge: [very serious] Do you swear allegiance to the Treehuse Club?
- Florence Stone: [solemn] I do.
- Kit Kittredge: And if the Ninth Street Club asks you to join their club?
- Florence Stone: I will laugh in their faces.
- Frances Stone: [whispering] Florence! You're *supposed* to say, 'I will decline'!
- Florence Stone: Oh.
- [very seriously]
- Florence Stone: I will decline... and laugh.
- Miss Bond: I'm sorry.. we were trying to be like Robin Hood - you know, steal from the rich to give to the poor. But... really, all we were doing was stealing from the rich... and the poor... and keeping it for ourselves. That's what we did, really.
- Jefferson Jasper Berk: Miss Bond? I have never levitated a mobile librarian before.
- Miss May Dooley: Have you ever levitated a dance instructor?
- Jefferson Jasper Berk: Yes, but that's a long story.