Drive them out utterly, so they may never return and prey upon our people.
Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.
All my dreams of leaving, but beneath them I was afraid to go. I had clung to them, to Rass, yes, even to my grandmother, afraid that if I loosened my fingers an iota, I would find myself once more co...
Was appalled that I was heading across the world for four years, asked me: How could you do this to your mother? Well, I answered, she did it to her mother. But when my parents went to China it was di...
We must have received our share of startled looks from the crew and other passengers—this seven-member family emerging from their third-class lower deck and climbing into a waiting chauffeur-driven li...
Thinking about myself as a crazy, independent old woman made me feel almost happy.
They decided they were too hooked on money and success, so they bought that old farm and they’re going to farm it and think about what’s important.
They ate a late lunch in the cafeteria. When she mentioned lunch, he realized with horror that he would need money, and he didn’t know how to tell her that he hadn’t brought any—didn’t have any to bri...
Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain.
The idea of living in the same house for all your childhood and having the same knot of devoted friends seemed magical to me, who had lived in thirteen different places by the time I was thirteen.
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Thanks, she said.Yeah? For what? he was thinking.You are the only kid in this whole durned school who is worth shooting.
So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births.
Shh, he said. Look.Where?Can't you see'um? he whispered. All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you.Me?Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the...
She had nothing against any of the other guests, but once she started she saw no way to stop. There was nothing to do but turn the hose against every arriving guest. No one coming out of the house to...
My dad has to go to Washington to work, or we wouldn’t have enough money . . .
Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey.
It is the principle of the things, Jess. That is what you have got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise they run into tyrants and dictators.
Intoxicated as he was with the heavens, he could not imagine needing anything on earth.
In the Book of Genesis, Abraham believes that God is commanding him to sacrifice his beloved son as proof of his love and obedience. But just as Abraham is about to thrust the knife into his terrified...