I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I’m trying to give a little of it back to others. It’s one of the greatest pleasures I know.
I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?
I hoped that Mary Anne, Claudia, Stacey, and I – the Baby Sitters Club – would stay together for a long time.
I really loved this book. I did for a school book report last year and I really got into it I just couldnt take my eyes of! You really absolutley need to read this book!
I’ve discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home – within ourselves.
Fight your battles with words, not fists.
I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.
If you’re very serious about writing it’s helpful to find an agent. It’s becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don’t accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they’ll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
I love to read, and I don’t believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. – Mallory Pike.
There’s so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.
Cats definitely have their own opinions.
You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don’t mess with Mr. In Between.
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure – knows – that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don’t expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one... well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.
By the time I reached school, I was shaking. I felt as if my entire world had warped and twisted like a funhouse mirror. Nothing was the same as it had been a month ago.
The party was a spur-of-the-moment thing for the kids Robert and I hang out with together. That’s all. Is that such a big deal? I don’t invite them to every BSC event, do I? They don’t get insulted.
Did you do something crazy, like cut it all off?” “Well,” I said, “not all.” “But it’s real short, right?” “Yeah, but – ” “Why did you do it?
Dawn be so rotten?
After all, you can’t force a friendship.
I think beaches kind of get in your blood, and if you grow up near one you never feel quite right when you’re away from it.