We carry our childhood with us.

You can’t just skip the boring parts.””Of course I can skip the boring parts.””How do you know they’re boring if you don’t read them?””I can tell.””Then you can’t say you’ve read the whole play.””I think...

He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It’s not like I was reading books or anything.

He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn’t one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it...

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn’t all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

A comedy isn’t about being funny…a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That’s what are can do.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

more to be a human being with

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn’t one of them… Why can’t poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o’er!”The red plague rid you!”Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!”As wicked dew as e’er my mother brushed with raven’s feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.”Strange...

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn’t sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?””Sometimes I do,” she said, and then smiled. “but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow...

When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, “If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I’m going to kill you” – which was not something that someone headed off...

I almost cried. But I didn’t, because if you’re in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl...