"I guess [Mrs. Crane] thought that Catholic Holy Water was better than nothing, and it must have worked because Mrs. Crane never got struck by lightning" (Chapter 1, page 5).

"[Miss Mae West] didn't dance, but she was all shiny and glittery and all she had to to was walk and talk and everyone in the movie theater laughed and laughed " (Chapter 3, page 17).

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? (Chapter 3, page 19).

"[Buddy and I] were certainly what grown-ups call 'fashion plates'" (Chapter 4, page 25).

"[...] I went back to school, but I never really liked kindergarten" (Chapter 5, page 36).

"What used to be the newly plowed backyard was roaring down in two muddy streams on either side of the house into the street" (Chapter 7, page 43).

"Aunt Nell told me that if you wanted something really important, you could ask your guardian angel, and as long as it...