Different Book Covers

Different Book Covers

Thursday, March 10, 2011

"[I] never learned what it was that Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs.Who, and Mrs.Which had to do, for there was a gust of wind, and they were gone"(232).
"Love. That was what...[I] had that IT did not have"(228).
"What have I got that IT hasn't got?...What have I possibly got?"(225).
"Maybe if I weren't so repulsive-looking-maybe if I were pretty like you-"(18).
"I hate being an oddball...It's hard on Sandy and Dennys too. I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're just able to pretend they are. I try to pretend, but it isn't any help"(18)
"Usually no matter what happens people think it's my fault, even if i have nothing to do with it at all. But I'm sorry i tried to fight him. It's just been an awful week. And I'm full of bad feeling"(17).
"I don't want him to grow up to be dumb like me"(14).
"-Why can't I hide, it too?...Why do I always have to show everything?"(9).
"-A delinquent, that's what I am...-That's what they'll be saying next. Not Mother. But Them. Everybody Else"(8).

Today

"It's not just the weather,[I] thought.-It's the weather on top of everything else. On top of me. On top of Meg Murry doing everything wrong"(1).