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Bye-bye." Walker flaps his hand up and down. I think I'll give him a hug. I do it too fast and knock him down, he bangs on the train table and cries. "I'm so sorry," Grandma keeps saying, "my grandson doesn't -- he's learning about boundaries--" "No harm done," says the first man. They go off with the little boy doing one two three whee swinging between them, he's not crying anymore. Grandma watches them, she's looking confused. "Remember,"..
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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 backpack at the same time, that's magic. "You like it?" It's Deana talking to me. "Would you like to keep your things in it?" "Maybe one that's not pink," says Paul to her. "What about this one, Jack, pretty cool or what?" He's holding up a ba..
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Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.
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Little by little; the way out of the mine was as long as the way in.
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Careful." Why do persons only say that after the hurt? Grandma"
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Thank you." Lib tried to think of some more conversational note to end on. "It's always intrigued me," she said, letting her voice rise, "why you Sisters of Mercy are called walking nuns." "We walk out into the world, you see, Mrs. Wright. We take the usual vows of any order--poverty, chastity, obedience--but also a fourth, service." Lib had never heard the nun say so much before. "What kind of service?" Anna broke in: "To the sick, the poo..
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Really, thought Lib, who ever died exultingly? Whatever fool penned that phrase had never sat by a bed with his ears pricked for the last rasp.) Aged
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In fact the English nurses had spent much of their time stuffing mattresses, stirring gruel, and standing at washtubs, but Lib didn't want the nun to mistake her for an ignorant menial. That was what nobody understood: saving lives often came down to getting a latrine pipe unplugged.
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All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night
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I love that boy Walker. Jack, you never saw him before in your life.
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She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.
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Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music.
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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."
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I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past.
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I must be cruel, only to be kind,
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Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?" "Like what things?" "Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies."
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When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being totally real. Now I'm in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn't real at all.
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The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.
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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!"
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Nie mozesz pozwolic by fakt, ze ktos chce twojej smierci, uniemozliwil ci wypicie twojej herbaty.
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An obsession, a mania, Lib supposed it could be called. A sickness of the mind. Hysteria, as that awful doctor had named it? Anna reminded Lib of a princess under a spell in a fairy tale. What could restore the girl to ordinary life? Not a prince. A magical herb from the world's end? Some shock to jolt a poisoned bite of apple out of her throat? No, something simple as a breath of air: reason. What if Lib shook the girl awake this very minu..
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If the potato blight had been such a long catastrophe, ending only seven years ago, it occurred to Lib that a child now eleven must have been born into hunger. Weaned on it, reared on it; that had to shape a person. Every thrifty inch of Anna's body had learned to make do with less. She's never been greedy or clamoured for treats - that was how Rosaleen O'Donnell had praised her daughter. Anna must have been petted every time she said she'd..
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Y como va a castigarnos? --No, quiero decir que ya lo esta haciendo. Cortando la luz. --Ah, pero eso no es malo. Mama se echa a reir. --?Como que no? nos estamos helando, estamos comiendo verduras babosas... -- Si, pero pensaba que nos iba a castigar tambien a nosotros--trato de imaginar como --. si por ejemplo hubiera dos habitaciones, y me pusiera a mi en una y a ti en la otra
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A mi en cambio, cuando algo me gusta, me gusta siempre; como me pasa con las chocolatinas, que nunca me canso de comerlas
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A strident female voice causes men's ears to close.
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Daughter, he said in a voice like old wood breaking, can you ever forgive me? I could only answer his question with one of my own. Putting my hand over his mouth, I whispered, Which of us would not sell all we had to stay alive?
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I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots.
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Careful." Why do persons only say that after the hurt?"
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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"
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Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."
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Now I feel bad I didn't give her the second quarter. Grandma says that's called having a conscience.
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Don't worry about it." She keeps saying that but I don't know to not worry. I"
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She's asleep, she can't be mad in her sleep, can she?
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Houses are like lots of Rooms stuck together, TV persons stay in them mostly but sometimes they go in their outsides and weather happens to them.
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The watch has altered the situation that's being watched.
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All I think when I look at you is hallelujah
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She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.
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In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. "Short for Davyd," he said pleasantly. The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life."
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And the flames are every colour of the rainbow." "They can't be," observed Daffy. "Well, they are," she said cheekily. "Have you been there, that you know so much about it?" "No," said Daffy, very calm, "but I'd wager I know more than you about the chemical processes of combustion." Mary rolled her eyes. Did he hope to dazzle her with syllables?"
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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.
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I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.
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Better to drown in the surf than stand idly on the shore.
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The girl remembered London as a place of infinite freedom. Now it seemed she'd rented out her whole life to the Joneses in advance. Service had reduced her to a child, put her under orders to get up and lie down at someone else's whim; her days were spent obeying someone else's rules, working for someone else's profit. Nothing was Mary's anymore. Not even her time was hers to waste.
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The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret
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