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- Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do…
- Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you…
- Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.
- Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
- I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing…
- A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear.…
- Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets…
- We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange"…
- Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys,…
- This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
- Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere.…
- Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is…
- We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
- Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep…
- She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone…
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