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1 " Rise to the occassion which is life! "
― Virginia Euwer Wolff
2 " You get olderand you are a whole mess of things,new thoughts, sorry feelings,big plans, enormous doubts,goling along hoping and getting disappointed,over and over again,no wonder I don't recognizemy little crayon picture.It appears to be meand it isand it is not. "
― Virginia Euwer Wolff , True Believer (Make Lemonade, #2)
3 " I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to. "
4 " I sure would like to get kissed.How would that feel on my mouth,How different would I be after,a changed climate down in my insides? "
5 " Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it. "
― Virginia Euwer Wolff , Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade, #1)
6 " He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them. "
7 " A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall. "
8 " If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away "
9 " You ever laughed so hardnobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,no matter what they tried to do to you? "
10 " If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait. "
11 " How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine? "
12 " While I fold laundry I memorize things for school, dates of wars: French ones, African ones, Russian ones, battles of all ugly kinds. It's a shame to have us hopeful young students learn these horrible things. Exactly the kind of behaving they have told us over and over again not to do is what the history class is full of, full-grown adults making these wars: killing each other for land, for religions, for greed and more greed, Why bother to have children and educate them and invent things to make their lives better, just to send them off to war and get slaughtered? "
13 " What does the cross mean?" I ask him."Crucifix. I don't know exactly. Jesus hanging in agony, nailed to boards. But it's a reminder.""Of what?""Well. Of—Well, evil.That evil's always gonna be around,and you deal with it. "
14 " If you want something to growand be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it,you have to wait.Meanwhile you keep watering itand it has to have sunshineand alsoyou talk to it. "
15 " Why didn't you tell us the first day?"And Jolly goes, "Well, nobody told me—I didn't know—"She goes, "Nobody told me. You know?"And when she says thisit's like a flat tire got fixed in my headand I suddenly see the sign of her life: "Nobody told me."I look in my brain and I make a brief listof who's sposed to tell you things.It's your folksand your teachersand your girlfriendsand your coach if you have a sport. "
16 " I want to be the one to say:"This is what I'll do,this is how I'll do it,and now see? I've done it. "
― Virginia Euwer Wolff , This Full House (Make Lemonade, #3)
17 " She isn't easy to have for a mom,she has too many opinions for one family,she can make me want to slam doors and stick out my tonguebut I don't do it because of the long run. "
18 " Because I don't think I have a handle on how to write for grown-ups. The grown-up publishing world is so fraught with one-upsmanship, scorn and snobbery. I did write an adult novel. Thank goodness it went out of print. I think we kids' authors still start out with hope every morning. We honor our audience. "
19 " One of the people on my Mom's Council,he used to be a boxer. My Mom always says he always says Get up on the 1.You don't want them to count to 2'cause then it's easy to count 3while you go on being down. AlwaysGet up on the 1. "
20 " Car horns honk way down on the street.Human life: honking, honkingwanting everything to go our way. "
