No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.

I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one.