Abigail

“What are you going to do?” Cindy asked as we walked home. “You can’t keep missing recess. We need you on our soccer team.”
“I can’t keep missing homework,” I added. “I’ll have all F’s on my report card.”
Cindy’s eyes got big. “Your parents will kill you.”
― Marcia Thornton Jones, Godzilla Ate My Homework

“People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn’t buy vanilla ice cream. Except on July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It hadn’t always been that way . . . Nick being liked. As you may recall, when Nick first moved to Eastfield, he was anything but liked. That’s why he invented the story about the scary Indian and the mysterious house. It was a great story—one that made everyone love him . . . for about three days. Then they found out he was lying, and then he was about as popular as a take-home test over Christmas vacation.”
― Bill Myers, McGee and Me! The Big Lie / A Start in the Breaking / Back to the Drawing Board

“Still, Bandit dared not ask. How many times had she been told that no proper member of an upright Confucian family ever questioned the conduct of elders? Or that children must wait until invited to speak? Countless times. Only the aged were considered wise.”
― Bette Bao Lord, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson