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1 " Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said. "
― Maureen Daly , The Small War of Sergeant Donkey
2 " Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri. "
3 " Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'. "
4 " When I eat, everything tastes so good I can't get all the taste out of it; when I look at something-say, the lake-the waves are so green and the foam so white that it seems I can't look at it hard enough; there seems to be something there that I can't get at. And even when I'm with you, I can't seem to be with you...enough. "
― Maureen Daly , Seventeenth Summer
5 " Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in. "
6 " A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her. "
7 " I wonder, I thought, what I am really thinking. Last week I would have known definitely but now everything seemed vague and evasive. "
8 " A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon! "
9 " It's funny how, having nice thoughts in your head, it is so pleasant to pull them all out and think them all over again. "
10 " Somehow, by holding hands you can carry on a conversation without talking. "
