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“toward us. “I wasn’t going to learn anything useful anyway,” Alexandra said. Carrie looked appalled, and her voice rose in direct relation to the disinterest in Alexandra’s tone. “You attacked another girl and just got kicked out of school! Don’t you realize how serious this is? Don’t you care?” Nope. I doubted she cared”
― Kel Carpenter, Heir of Shadows

“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

“churning gravel cut off our shouting. Our eyes locked as we heard a car door shut, far too faintly for humans to hear. I turned away to hide my grimace as my forty-something, bible-thumping, temporary legal guardian”
― Kel Carpenter, Heir of Shadows

“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