Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
the worst happens when you least expect it
That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.
One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.