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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed3cffa | Si nosotros lo creyeramos, sabriamos que no solo somos los creadores de nuestra desdicha, sino que tambien de nuestra felicidad. | Paul Watzlawick | ||
| 1dc0880 | in order to be solved, a problem first of all has to be a problem. What we mean by this is that the translation of a vaguely stated problem into concrete terms permits the crucial separation of problems from pseudo-problems. | Paul Watzlawick | ||
| 8e8a8e7 | Squeenk! Ribbet! | Megan McDonald | ||
| 744741d | Croak! | Megan McDonald | ||
| fa5f6a6 | born on Indian Island. And I just want to say that what happened to the Indians is exactly like what happened to the Irish under British rule. It wasn't a fair fight. Their land was stolen, their religion was forbidden, they were forced to bend to foreign domination. It wasn't okay for the Irish, and it's not okay for the Indians." "Jeez, soapbox much?" Tyler mutters. Megan McDonald, one seat ahead of Molly, raises her hand, and Mr. Reed no.. | Christina Baker Kline | ||
| 2c9a73d | Finger knitting was the greatest -- no knitting needles needed. She looped the yarn over her fingers, one, two, three, four, back, over, under, through | Megan McDonald | ||
| 004ffb6 | You scared my pants off! | Megan McDonald | ||
| d343f9c | Dunk | Megan McDonald | ||
| e2cccc0 | Dunk had dunked him. | Megan McDonald | ||
| 3941da9 | similarity | Megan McDonald | ||
| 357443c | About the Author MEGAN MCDONALD grew up in a house full of books and sisters--four sisters, who inspire many of the stories she writes. She has loved to write since she was ten, when she got her first story published in her school newspaper. Megan vividly remembers growing up in the 1970s, from making apple-seed bracelets to learning the metric system. San Francisco is close to home for Megan, who lives with her husband in Sebastopol, Calif.. | Megan McDonald | ||
| 1679433 | zooming | Megan McDonald | ||
| 41ada1b | Webster (the friend, not the dictionary). He wrote a letter to his other best friend, Elizabeth, who liked to be called Sophie of the Elves. He even wrote a letter to his teacher, telling her how great he was at writing letters. | Megan McDonald | ||
| 41001b1 | out, | Megan McDonald | ||
| 39e1ad9 | temperature's | Megan McDonald | ||
| fc22383 | He read them a book called Frozen Man, the incredible, real-life story of a five-thousand-year-old mummy. | Megan McDonald | ||
| 2edd320 | me your ruler so I can measure them." "I don't have a ruler," said Judy. "That whole detective kit and no ruler?" "In The Witch Tree Symbol, Nancy Drew used her skirt as a ruler." "Then give me your skirt." "Hardee-har-har, Stink." "No way are these footprints human," said Frank. "Maybe Mr. Chips got eaten by a bear!" said Rocky. "Or a yeti!" said Stink. "The Abominable Snowman," said Frank. "Get real," said Judy. "There are more footprints.. | Megan McDonald | ||
| b0f332f | stompers! The next morning, Judy was already hard at work on the case by the time Stink woke up. She sprawled on the floor with a rainbow of markers all around her. "What're you doing to Officer Kopp's flyers?" Stink asked. "Fixing them," said Judy, coloring in blue eyes on the picture of Mr. Chips. Stink tilted his head, reading upside down. He was trying to figure out the words Judy had just added. "'Have you seen this goo?'" "'Have you s.. | Megan McDonald | ||
| 26e7ccc | Maggie, | Megan McDonald | ||
| 6402a30 | Sybil Ludington, | Megan McDonald | ||
| cb942e3 | Judy Moody Warthog, aka Just Jude, was going to be in an art show at college! | Megan McDonald | ||
| 60bce89 | Judy dumped all the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and pastels she had on the floor. Stink grabbed the first blue marker he saw and started to draw. "What are you drawing?" "Bats," said Stink. "Blue bats." "You're bats," said Judy. "People don't like bats." "But bats eat millions of insects," said Stink. "People should like bats." | Megan McDonald | ||
| 6479616 | I," said Stink, "am getting the World's Biggest Jawbreaker." He held it up for Judy to see. "It changes colors and flavors as you go." "Rare! It looks like an earth. Or a giant emu egg or something." "Or something," said Stink. "Stink, I don't think you want to eat that." | Megan McDonald | ||
| ac92550 | Terrible," said Stink. "I had one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, just-like-that-kids'-book yuck days." "What's wrong?" asked Mom, coming into the room. "Stink hit his friend Webster" | Megan McDonald | ||
| b7069b2 | Nah-uh! Bad one!" everybody moaned. "No way," said Frank. The note shot out of his mouth and landed smack-dab in the middle of Rocky's desk. Slobber City! "Gross!" yelled Rocky. Mr. Todd passed out the quizzes. Mr. Todd cleared his throat. "Question number one: How many times did I wear a purple tie to school this year?" Everybody shouted answers. "Ten!" "Twenty-seven!" "One hundred!" "Four!" "Never!" called Jessica Finch. "Never is correct.. | Megan McDonald | ||
| 25ede2e | Eyes are verbs that conjugate the emotions. | Anu Garg | ||
| feb27f7 | Thank God justice has prevailed I have been vindicated. | Anwar Ibrahim | ||
| 342b71d | dudgeon | Leif Enger | ||
| 031e0bf | No power on earth can stop the power of the people. | Anwar Ibrahim | ||
| 5687a73 | Still, she felt absolutely sick inside, and as soon as she walked into her classroom, she knew that everyone was looking at her, even the teacher, as though at any moment she might stand up and do something crazy. Wally, in fact, kept leaning forward in his seat as if she might go berserk and take a bite out of his shoulder or something. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| ff0d012 | Karen made a face. "Oh, c'mon." "I don't think so," I said. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 5fc35a8 | Thanks for coming over," Beth said as she opened the door for them. "I mean it." And from behind her, Caroline squeaked, "With you by my side, Elmer, we can do anything!" Everyone grinned, and Wally added, "Annabelle, I never thought I'd amount to much, but when I met you, everything changed!" "Cut it out," said Josh, turning red, but he was smiling too." | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| c122b5a | Caroline | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| cab9709 | pretending that Shiloh's a bear, tryin' to get in. The more they squeal, the more Shiloh wiggles about, tryin' to get his nose under the edge of the sheet, tail going ninety miles an hour. If that dog had wings, he'd fly, except his propeller would be on the wrong end. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| c22034c | I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something. | antlers butterfly changes deer deer-getting-antlers funny girl humerous moth period puberty questioning sex sexual-intercourse teen teen-girl | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| 422891f | There was a fire drill at school the next day. I think I'm more afraid of the fire alarm than I am of a fire. When the fire alarm goes off, you jump out of your skin. Your heart pounds and your ears buzz and your brain melts and all you want to do is get away from that horrible noise. "Get up and walk quickly out the door and to your right," said Mr. Dooley. "Do not pass go and do not collect two hundred dollars," said Donald. I held my han.. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 619391a | smug | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| dbf83a9 | What's up?" asked Beth. "You mean, what's ," said Eddie, her eyes beginning to glower. "Or, what's to be down. going to be down, that's what." She let sisters over a hedge just beyond the school property. "We're going to wait here," she said, "and when the Hatfords come by, we're going to leap on Jake--all three of us. Before Wally and Josh can even think of stopping us, we are going to stuff Jake so full of snow he'll think he's a sno.. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 2a6bdf5 | Whatever did girls do without sisters? | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 7b30f75 | Beth took the binoculars. "Boys," she answered. "Right." "Spying on us!" she said, starting to smile. "Right again." "What are we going to do?" Eddie laughed. "Give them something to look at." "But what?" "We'll see," said Eddie. Caroline smiled to herself. Whatever did girls do without sisters? She took the binoculars again and watched as the four boys across the river slowly made their way back down the trapdoor in the roof. "Whatever we .. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| d37ec33 | All over again, after 15 years, they want to put me in the lockup and that is why they are rushing. | Anwar Ibrahim | ||
| f2c33f3 | The boys want us to think the river's polluted. I heard them talking!" "Those creepy jerks!" cried Caroline. "Those jerky creeps!" said Eddie. "This isn't a joke anymore. This is war!" | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 1eabc37 | There were elegantly made up women sitting on bus benches who were not really women and not really waiting for buses. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 2ac9121 | How many girls?" Mother asked. "Two, now," Peter answered. "I mean three. girls!" He looked quickly at Jake. " girls, all right. I counted." Mother studied him curiously." | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |