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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 11e1d0e | handsome | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 38fbd2c | Ramona | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 9e12e9d | With gray thread Beezus carefully outlined the steam coming from the teakettle's spout and thought about her pretty young aunt, who was always so gay and so understanding. No wonder she was Mother's favorite sister. Beezus hoped to be exactly like Aunt Beatrice when she grew up. She wanted to be a fourth-grade teacher and drive a yellow convertible and live in an apartment house with an elevator and a buzzer that opened the front door. Beca.. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 760a1b4 | Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 910b4f9 | Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks," chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth." | childhood children humor playtime ramona | Beverly Cleary | |
| a481ce3 | Beezus | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 107f356 | carpet tickling the bottoms of their feet and their nosegays | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 7f55a67 | At first guests were amused by | Beverly Cleary | ||
| a1add6c | Conversation from the living room was boring, all | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 64c62cc | glowered. "All right," he said, and raised his voice to a yell." | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 2e4eb64 | That girl has been bad again," Ramona heard the four-year-old next door say to her little sister." | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 688cbc3 | RALPH S. MOUSE | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 23c88c9 | Mother--" began Ramona, leaning out into the hall. Mother paid no attention to her. "I just don't see what we can" | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 18079d3 | perfectly all right with me. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| fe2021e | The world, Ramona decided, was full of people who used their dictionary skills and probably weren't any fun. Then | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 8132300 | minutes. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 849fe8d | And Don't Miss Beverly Cleary's Autobiography | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 091a828 | elevator and a buzzer that opened the front | Beverly Cleary | ||
| d1ef473 | because | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 82e70f3 | did when her hair was washed. When Mother finished she | Beverly Cleary | ||
| aa024a4 | Why, no, I guess not, | Beverly Cleary | ||
| cea992c | birthday party, | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 32079ec | BUGLE | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 7ac9a3f | Mother, what am I going to do?" Beezus demanded. "It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. they won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair!" Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all." | Beverly Cleary | ||
| eda5659 | One day after school Henry Huggins, who lived | Beverly Cleary | ||
| abc7401 | Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 9413fde | Never mind the danger, never mind what his mother thought. This was living. This was what he wanted to do. On and on and on. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| beff3d4 | What's the use of having a motorcycle if you can't go tearing around staying out late?" Ralph asked reasonably." | Beverly Cleary | ||
| a10059e | Ralph curled up on a heap of shredded Kleenex and took a good long nap. When he awoke refreshed, his first thought was of the motorcycle. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 8cc1770 | Don't women think that all men are jerky twelve-year-olds at heart?" "Hey, if the heart fits." | Gillian Flynn | ||
| fe355bb | Binet himself worried about the potential misuse of the tests he designed. He insisted they were not a measurement, properly speaking. He argued that intelligence comes in many different forms, only some of them testable by his or by any test. His understanding of different skills, aptitudes, or forms of intelligence was probably closer to that of educator Howard Gardner's concept of "multiple intelligences" than to anything like a rigid, m.. | Cathy N. Davidson | ||
| 7daa986 | But it comes from someplace that knows who you are. I think that we can decide if we can be great or not. | Howard Stern | ||
| d7ad7af | When James Garner called Howard Stern "the epitome of trailer trash," Stern responded, in his typically scatological fashion, "I can't believe this guy wants a war with me. He should be busy worrying if he's gonna have a solid bowel movement." We know, of course, from Stern's now two best-selling memoirs that neither his parents nor his own Long Island suburban family live in a trailer. His non-trash origin goes to show that you do not have.. | Annalee Newitz | ||
| 0638bf2 | It's a common enough mistake to believe that one's own time is the most progressive, the most advanced. That human nature only improves upon itself. But in fact, things move in cycles--good to bad and back again. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| f6ca69f | Think of a marriage, husband and wife. The piece of paper, the white wedding dress, they don't promise anything. A person has to stay there, fight for it, every day. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 5e6bdc7 | It was so nice to be on the cusp of parenthood, to be able to judge other people's choices with confidence, not yet having made any mistakes of their own. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 7397691 | She could come up with a hundred reasons why now wasn't the time, why home was not a place one went for a visit. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| f708981 | Gilot | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 9fc25fa | I'm afraid your grandmother's Irish Alzheimer's has gotten quite advanced--she's forgotten everything but her grudges. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 3ea4e1a | Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 118c3a6 | Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized. | save-your-life | J. Courtney Sullivan | |
| 6c08dd9 | The things she worried about on a daily basis included but were not limited to: Children starving in Africa. Chemicals in her daughter's food and drinking water. Corruption in Washington, everywhere you looked. The poor, who no one even talked about anymore. Rape in the Congo, which didn't seem to be going away, despite so much talk. Rape at elite American colleges, which wasn't going away either. Plastic. Oil in the Gulf. Beer commercials,.. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 1fce21b | It was so bitter and sad, looking for safety in the person least likely to give it to you. Like drinking salt water, she thought. The house felt eerily quiet. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| afb0050 | Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her. | growing-up individuality mother motherhood parenthood parenting parents personality | J. Courtney Sullivan |