You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front … - Patricia Polacco

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There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

Patricia Polacco

You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.

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You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

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Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things. . . adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!

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