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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.
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He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.
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You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?
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There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.
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There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.
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Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Obert Skye
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Obert Skye is a bestselling American children's writer known for the Leven Thumps series, the Pillage Trilogy. and The Creature from My Closet. He has also written, Witherwood Reform School, and Beyond Foo.
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Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Pillage
Wonkenstein
Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
Witherwood Reform School
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