Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn’t sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
I almost cried. But I didn’t, because if you’re in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It’s not like I was reading books or anything.
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.
You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That’s what are can do.
Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?’ I asked.My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile.Really, a smile.’Not in a million years,’ he said.
Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?””Sometimes I do,” she said, and then smiled. “but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.
He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.
He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.
I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn’t all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.
It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.
Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.
Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.
A comedy isn’t about being funny…a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn’t one of them… Why can’t poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?