"I want to learn everything I can, and I write down everything I see. Golly says if I want to be a writer someday, I better start now, and that is why I am a spy."

"Vanessa Lee Chester - Janie Gibbs"

"Gregory Smith - Simon "Sport" Rocque"

"The only thing worse than being Marion Hawthorn, is wanting to be Marion Hawthorn."

"Carrie Andrews thinks she's cool because she spent her summer vacation growing boobs."

"Sometimes I think families here are exactly the same."

"There are as many ways to live in this world as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look."

"You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's going to keep making people nervous for the rest of your life."

"Good friends are one of life's blessings. Don't give them up without a fight."

"Just because you're going to be alone now doesn't mean the world stops turning. You'll keep writing in your notebooks and when you're grown up and you publish your first novel, I'll be first in line at that bookstore, getting an autographed copy."

"You remember, a good spy can get in there and fight. Goodbye, Harriet the Spy."

"This stuff is beyond crap. It is what crap wants to be when it grows up."

"Janie's Mom: JANIE! I am sick to death of this mad scientist baloney! Look at this! Look at this!"

"See the world through the eyes of a spy."

"On your case!"

"Some kids collect insects. Others collect dolls. Harriet M. Welsh collects secrets."

"There's no lead she won't follow. No question she won't ask. And no way she'll ever get caught!"

Harriet the Spy (film)

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