“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.” — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
“While I fold laundry I memorize things for school, dates of wars: French ones, African ones, Russian ones, battles of all ugly kinds. It's a shame to have us hopeful young students learn these horrible things. Exactly the kind of behaving they have told us over and over again not to do is what the history class is full of,… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share
“How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you? — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
“I sure would like to get kissed. How would that feel on my mouth, How different would I be after, a changed climate down… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
