Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.
Today is one of the days when Ma is Gone.She won't wake up properly. She's here but not really. She stays in Bed with the pillows on her head.Silly Penis is standing up, I squish him down.I eat my hun...
The Dora bag has straps, it’s like Backpack but with Dora on it instead of Backpack’s face. It has a handle too, when I try it pulls up, I think I broke it, but then it rolls, it’s a wheelie bag and a...
She gets sick of things fast, it’s from being an adult.
Please, he added. I meant to say, please. I've thought it all through. I've thought of nothing else. I haven't read a book in weeks!
Me acuerdo de ser educado, que es cuando la gente tiene miedo de que los otros se enfaden.
Ma’s in Room still, I want her here so much much much.
It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. When
It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same.Befo...
Is there a sense in which you miss being behind a locked door? Ma turns to Morris. Is she allowed to ask me such stupid questions? The
In the year 1752 it was announced that the second of September would be followed by the fourteenth. The matter was merely one of wording, of course; time in its substance was not to undergo any change...
In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of tim...
I'd love to watch TV all the time, but it rots our brains. Before I came down from Heaven Ma left it on all day long and got turned into a zombie that's like a ghost but walks 'thump thump.' So now sh...
I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?Steppa laughs. Folks with other things to do?
I think is man talk for .
I looked at my stepmother, and she stared back at me, and our eyes were like mirrors set opposite each other, making a corridor of reflections, infinitely hollow.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.
How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized - as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. For Anna...
Half the country wouldn’t have died if the landlords hadn’t kept shipping away the corn, seizing cattle, rack-renting, evicting, torching cabins…Or if the government at Westminster hadn’t thought it t...
Grandma says there's more of him.What?Persons like him, in the world.Ah, says Ma.Is it true?Yeah. But the tricky thing is, there's far more people in the middle.