Time Quote by Beverly Cleary

““She really was weating Stan's bracelet on her arm, something she had scarcely allowed herself to think about-at least not often; it would be so far in the future, if it happened at all. And now it had happened, months before she had dreamed it could.””

Beverly Cleary

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I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

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“He seemed grown-up, compared to the boys at school, and although he was not handsome, or even particularly good-looking—there were still some scars on…

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