# Quote — Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks

> We wouldn't be lost if Hound hadn't eaten the map, and Hound wouldn't have eaten the map if you hadn't hidden your sandwich in it.

- Author: [Jeanne Birdsall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeanne-birdsall.md)
- Book: [The Penderwicks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeanne-birdsall/the-penderwicks.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeanne_Birdsall#The_Penderwicks:_A_Summer_Tale_of_Four_Sisters,_Two_Rabbits,_and_a_Very_Interesting_Boy_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeanne-birdsall/the-penderwicks/we-wouldnt-be-lost

## More from this book

> We'll discover that when I'm in the backseat for too long with my younger sisters, I go insane and murder them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeanne-birdsall/the-penderwicks/well-discover-that.md)

> Maybe it's fate that Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeanne-birdsall/the-penderwicks/maybe-its-fate.md)