will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

Enjoy yourself whilst you read!

Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!

Well, I didn't need them. I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose. I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

well it about these really naughty girls they made this huge girls gand they stole stuff from shopes and stuff

I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood.

tht's why u mst never forget ma sister jodie

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars

What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?