That's the unforgivable sin, you know.What is?Refusing to forgive someone.Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin? I asked incredulously.
Sometimes the bad guys don't win.
She says she’ll return my briefs if you return her paper, Wally. Do you know what she’s talking about?Wally nodded and swallowed. Tell her I’ll return the paper if she returns the flashlight.Mr. Hatfo...
Eddie, Beth, and Caroline, this is . . . She paused, waiting for the boys to say their own names.Josh, said Jake.Jake, said Josh.Peter, said Wally.Wally, said Peter.
…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that...
How one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie.
Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being alive embarrasses me.
One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising...
I wanted my children and grandchildren to know that no matter when you are born or where you live, happiness and disappointments have the same flavors the world over.
Stares down at her spinach. It looks like poop, she says.
There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.
Don't expect trouble.
But how did you know that it was Stacy?There wasn’t a green light flashing, that’s for sure, he said. Mostly, I felt I’d met a person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. That I didn’t need to...
I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it’s Dad? Tyler told me. You’ll feel even worse, of course, but you’ll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again...
Happiness is wanting what you have. Being happy with what you've got. Enjoying it, and making it all it could be.
Now, what’s this all about? she demanded.They started it, Mom, said Caroline, wringing out the tail of her shirt.We did not! said Jake hotly. Eddie turned the hose on Josh.He dropped his bucket on pur...
Wally closed his eyes. He couldn’t imaging dragging Eddie anywhere. A tiger, maybe, but not Eddie Malloy.
Do not panic! Lord Thistlebottom
Caroline said to herself. Well, the Hatfords would soon find out they were no match for the Malloys.
Plus a porch that runs along three sides of the house. I told Ma once the Howards had a room just for company, a room just for books, and a room just for plants, and she said that was three rooms too...