How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
Rick YanceyOh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.
Rick YanceyAs long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you...to make my love bearable.
Rick YanceyThen I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.
Rick YanceyWhat boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?
Rick Yancey