“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”
“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”
“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”
“you find magic wherever you look. sit back and relax. all you need is a book”
“when Melanchthon recalled it, although, as we have said, he was not yet in Wittenberg when it happened, and was really only recounting the recollections of others who had been there. So when he did, he was speaking in the way so many of us do when remembering things: we aren’t telling an untruth but conflating things in a way that is not perfectly and literally accurate, specifically to make a larger point, and, as good fiction does, to tell a greater truth.”
“Raw pain scored his insides, but the bear was in agreement with the man: as long as Silver lived, he could take the pain, take the loss that would haunt him always. He had this big body for a reason. It could take a lot of punishment. As long as she breathed, he’d survive. He’d watch over her from afar, and he’d survive because his mate was alive.”
“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
“George,' I croaked, 'are you okay?'
'No. Someone's buttocks are flattening my foot.'
I shifted my position irritably.”
“In earlier times, when there was a rage for physiognomy, a Gall might have dissected the brains of such chess champions to determine whether there was a special convolution in their gray matter, a kind of chess muscle or chess bump more strongly marked than in the skulls of others. And how excited such a physiognomist would”
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