Top 44 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Quotes
#1. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And
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#3. Pretending that Shiloh's a bear, tryin' to get in. The more they squeal, the more Shiloh wiggles about, tryin' to get his nose under the edge of the sheet, tail going ninety miles an hour. If that dog had wings, he'd fly, except his propeller would be on the wrong end.
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#4. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.
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#5. The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.
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#8. Between the 6th and 7th grade, something happens to your eyes. they water a lot. I think its so you can get all the watering out of the way before you begin wearing mascara.
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#9. Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.
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#10. That's the unforgivable sin, you know."
"What is?"
"Refusing to forgive someone."
"Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously.
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#11. Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.
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#14. The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.
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#15. For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.
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#16. Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after.
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#17. If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being female. You are all wondrously made, girls. Remember that: wondrously made, and you should carry your sex proudly, a badge of honor.
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#18. It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.
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#19. When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home.
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#20. We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.
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#21. His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.
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#22. Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway.
'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.
'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully.
'Huh?' said Lester.
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#23. plus a porch that runs along three sides of the house. I told Ma once the Howards had a room just for company, a room just for books, and a room just for plants, and she said that was three rooms too many. First time I ever saw any envy in my ma. David
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#24. I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.
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#25. There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.
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#26. Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.
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#29. ... and I'm thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain't bad for eleven.
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#30. I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it's Dad?" Tyler told me.
"You'll feel even worse, of course, but you'll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does," I said.
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#33. I hate that phrase: move on. Like no matter what happened or what you did, you just "move on," and that's supposed to make everything all right.
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#34. One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.
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#35. Funny how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie. I sit on the porch swing later, not even
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#36. If Jesus ever comes back to earth again, I'm thinking, he'll come as a dog, because there isn't anything as humble or patient or loving or loyal as the dog I have in my arms right now.
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#38. Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being alive embarrasses me.
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#39. It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.
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#40. Karen made a face. "Oh, c'mon."
"I don't think so," I said.
"Old Play-by-the-Rules McKinley," said Brian, laughing at me.
I could hardly stand him. "You've got that right," I said, and turned away.
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#41. You get a dog on your mind, it seems to fill up the whole space. Everything you do reminds you of that dog. When
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#43. Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?
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#44. I wanted my children and grandchildren to know that no matter when you are born or where you live, happiness and disappointments have the same flavors the world over.
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