I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.