โIn Truth,โ I said, โthere are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.โ โHow do you win?โ he asked. โThat,โ I said, โis such a boy question.
Sarah DessenMaybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.
Sarah DessenYour mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
Sarah DessenShe bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.
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