Everything is as it should be.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society