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"Dreams can make you so scared or addled or miserable that you'll do whatever you have to just to be free of them." p. 2
"I found out that once you're in junior high, you're too big for lots of the stuff you used to do before." p. 10
"Why I thought I could do French when I can't hardly speak my own language is more than I can say." p. 19
"Seeing him like that, trying so hard to do something so simple, gave me a funny feeling inside." p. 37
"Sometimes Maxine says things the rest of us would life to say but can't, because of our jobs and our children." p. 51
"Two boys, I thought, alike and not alike, both missing their mothers." p. 59
"It was okay for girls to want to do well at school, but not for boys; they weren't supposed to care." p. 70
"'They couldn't take...
This section contains 274 words (approx. 1 page at 400 words per page) |