He sometimes daydreamed about sitting beside her in a beautiful meadow and just counting her freckles.
No one’s ever brought me flowers before, said Mr. Kidswatter. You may not believe this, Louis, but I don’t have many friends. He put his hand on Louis’s shoulder. You’re like a son to me, he said.And...
Dana raised her hand. I learned about exaggeration, she said. It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right...
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and char...
Back at the compound, they had dug in a systematic order, row upon row, allowing space for the water truck. But out here there was no system. It was as if every once in a while, in a fit of frustratio...
What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn't be much worse than what he felt now. In fact, maybe at the moment of his death he wou...
I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end u...
If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies. While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo—oo—oon, If only, if only. Stanley
For the record, I never described Lucy as overweight. I simply reported what she said. I have been very careful not to refer to any woman as old and fat.
They had never had a nice teacher. They were terribly afraid of nice teachers.
The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.
It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling,To wake up wearing a disguise.I lie in bed staring at the ceiling, I don't know who I am There's little that I canFully recognize....But I'm taking small steps,'...
Instead, they called her a name. They called her a genius. And even though it really didn’t explain anything, everybody considered it a satisfactory explanation.And that way, nobody ever had to really...
In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.
Offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.
He gave it all to charity, said my father. Diabetes research, I can understand that. But cancer research? He didn’t even have cancer!
You know what? I’m not going to describe anybody else as elderly. Let’s just say that if you take my age and double it, I would still have been the youngest person in the room, by a lot.
We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what...