He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.
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Frances O'Roark Dowell

Stichwörter: words



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A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Stichwörter: friends relationships real



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Tobin, my man, you are going to learn about chickens. And when you to learn about chickens, you will learn about life.

Frances O'Roark Dowell


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Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together.
~Rev. Mayes
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be

Frances O'Roark Dowell


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What filled the rooms of Grete's cottage so decidedly were woven baskets and wooden boxes and clay pots glazed in red and blue, each with its own mishmash of this and that. Roots and leaves still redolent of dirt. Balls of scratchy wool-purple twining into pink easing into periwinkle fading into gray. At least three boxes held squares and strips of fabric, all colors, and eight pots overflowed with apples.
The walls were lined with shelves, the shelves were lined with books. Wordless spines peered out. As soon as Isabelle saw them, she itched to open it up and read it from cover to cover.

Frances O'Roark Dowell


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Dream girl? Ain't such a thing. You walk, you talk, you got mammary glands, well, that's gonna do it right there for most guys.

Frances O'Roark Dowell


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That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you.

Frances O'Roark Dowell


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You can't expect a person to love an animal they might see decapitated at any minute. It ain't realistic," I told Miss Blue, who was gulping down her worm. She looked up at me like it shocked her to learn that some chickens got treated that way.

Frances O'Roark Dowell


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You gonna stand in my backyard and ignore me to my face?

Frances O'Roark Dowell


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4. If you do not give your chickens enough space, light, air, and walking-around room, they will eat one another.

Frances O'Roark Dowell


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