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Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.

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It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is the...more

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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

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If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and frien...more

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Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

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He will be with his friends, and that always feels like coming home.

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Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the pl...more

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Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

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George, I’m sorry!” he cried through his tears. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please, I’m suh-suh-SORRY—” And then they were around him, his friends, and no ...more

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You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when ...more

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(...) if that's what has to be. no good friends. No bad riends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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(...) if that's waht has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even cry...more

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The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years–if it ever did end–began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet o...more