Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that ….

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man..

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything..

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is..

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause..

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles..

Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said..

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants….

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wi….

A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose….

Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but somet….

Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, a….

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 w….

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto….

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place….

And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn't really matter. S….

You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there..

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together..

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it..

When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, th….

The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in a….