“It was a curiously happy picture: a dark-haired girl...sternly cautioning her bare-kneed younger brother not to be so loud in church, then bending down to whisper with a mischievous smile, 'If you can only sit still for five more minutes,… — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“I am feeling much better now. I am fairly certain it was your letters that kept me alive.” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions.” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“He almost died," I pointed out. "Not that I have any other experience of it, but I would guess that when people almost die,… — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“But I seem to recall that you can rub the outside of an apple until it shines without ever eradicating the worm within.” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then.” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I… — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan!” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the… — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge.” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
