I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.