Quotes from Julia DeVillers

Nurse! Nurse!" A teacher came running in, dragging a boy with her. "A student cut his finger!" "It's just a paper cut," the kid said. "Jeez." "We have a bleeder! We have a bleeder!" the nurse announced dramatically. "Everyone to a cot!" The kid looked embarrassed but otherwise fine. I, on the other hand, was embarrassed and not fine.

Excuse me, but you're disturbing the other students," Mrs. Nicely, the library media specialist, said,

I see you are already learning our beautiful language.

Like the famous story our parents told us about these real-life identical twins who were separated at birth. They met when they were grown-up and found out that their adoptive parents named them both James! And the men had each married women named Linda, and they named their sons James and their dogs Toy! Weird! I

Um, I forgot what that means, but madlob!

So sorry. Sit down in the seat of shame between your parents. Hee.

Insults are the sincerest form of jealousy," I said. "So Tess and I thank you both for your correct perception of the inevitable.

Then one of the dogs rolled onto her back and panted at me. "Oh, cute," I said. "I'll scritch your belly if you don't eat my head." I started scritching her belly. Then the other two dropped in front of me also.