Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.
In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.
No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.
I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk. Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.
There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.
I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.
I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate
There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.