What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.
Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.