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“That meant that Nancy was the grown-up, the one who got to decide everything. And it meant that Bean was the little, boring, poopy…

— Annie Barrows

“But the truth was that Laura Ingalls Wilder was the nicest girl I’d ever not known. Rennie would throw me under a bus for…

— Jennifer Gooch Hummer

“I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I had staked all on Gussie making a favourable impression on his hostess, basing my confidence on the fact that he was one of…

— P.G.Wodehouse

“With gray thread Beezus carefully outlined the steam coming from the teakettle’s spout and thought about her pretty young aunt, who was always so…

— Beverly Cleary

“I ordered another. If this was going to be a fish-story, I needed stimulants. "On the liner going to New York I met a…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I say, Bertie," he said, after a pause of about an hour and a quarter. "Hallo!" "Do you like the name Mabel?" "No." "No?"…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Jenny and I were like peas and carrots.”

— Winston Groom

“My mother asks quickly, “Who’s Kate?” My father answers between bites, “Katherine Brooks, new employee. Brilliant girl. And quite the firecracker. She gave Drew…

— Emma Chase

“Who would think than an adolescent boy would have anything to teach an old woman? But it was Garrett who had led her into…

— Eowyn Ivey