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“Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

“A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy

“There's one good thing about getting in trouble: It seems like you do it in steps. It seems like you don't just end up in trouble but that you kind of ease yourself into it. It also seems like the worse the trouble is that you get into, the more steps it takes to get there. Sort of like you're getting a bunch of little warnings on the way; sort of like if you really wanted to you could turn around.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

“Doggone it all!”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, Elijah of Buxton

“A Mile A Minute”
― Christopher Paul Curtis

“The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy

“Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

“You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, Bucking the Sarge