Mrs. Murdo Quotes in City of Ember (2008)

[after Granny passes away, Lina and Poppy have to move into Mrs. Murdo's place. Mrs. Murdo shows them a clean room with a single bed]

Mrs. Murdo: You and Poppy have to share, but I think the bed's big enough. Poppy, let's make some dinner and get your sister get settled.

[Lina, with a box of her belongings in her arms, stares unhappily at her new room]

Mrs. Murdo: [Cut to the dinner scene, when there are rumblings from below and bits of ceiling falling from above]

Mrs. Murdo: [Mrs. Murdo, oblivious to the destruction all around them, says to Lina:] Do you know your part?

Lina Mayfleet: Um, I, I think I remember it pretty well from last year.

Mrs. Murdo: [enraptured] Oh, the Great Day of Singing is *so* important! Ah, it lifts all of our hearts! How lucky we are.

[Mrs. Murdo is equally oblivious to the fact that Lina and Poppy are grieving for Granny]

Lina Mayfleet: I don't feel very lucky, lately.

[Mrs. Murdo lifts a finger grandly, as though to dispense great wisdom]

Mrs. Murdo: There's nothing to worry about.

Lina Mayfleet: The blackouts worry everybody.

Mrs. Murdo: Help is coming.

Lina Mayfleet: [frowns:] Help?

Mrs. Murdo: Mm-hm! Who built our City, dear?

Lina Mayfleet: The... Builders?

Mrs. Murdo: That's right. And the Builders will come again and show us the way.

[Even Poppy looks incredulous. Lina realizes she has been talking to a crazy person, so she only nods]