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“all washed over Laura like the light breeze that was still making the wheat whisper below. She was finding it hard to think through the throb of her headache, the burn of the pain points all over her body. She felt tiredness come, tried to battle it. Something wasn’t right.”
― Blake Pierce, Already Gone

“There is a great variety of smart, wellwritten family-situation programs, with really good messages about making choices, telling the truth, and much more. Superb TV is still anything on PBS (except for fund-raisers involving the Three Tenors or Four very old Tops), but for parents and kids to enjoy together, Lizzie McGuire rules and Bill Cosby reruns can’t be beat. There was a time,”
― Carl Lennertz, Cursed by a Happy Childhood: Tales of Growing Up, Then and Now

“весь”
― Nikolai Gogol, Мертвые души, Том первый

“times, but no matter. Down the slide, around, and back up. Down, around, up. Over and over again, never getting bored. After being told what to do and how to behave most of the day, this is their moment of abandon . . . and control. At first we join in the play, but after the umpteenth push on a swing, our restless adult minds return to thoughts about work or a project around the house that needs doing. We see our day as finite; a child sees it as infinite. But when we let ourselves see the world through their eyes and in simpler”
― Carl Lennertz, Cursed by a Happy Childhood: Tales of Growing Up, Then and Now