Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.