Quotes About Friendship

One day after school Henry Huggins, who lived

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Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

make. Henry sent it back across the street. Pow! Scooter

you can't put that boy and his dog off in the rain.

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to Ramona, because it was

RALPH S. MOUSE

Hello, you old dog," Henry said. "You can't have my ice cream cone.

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Ryan Bramble, the son of the hotel's new housekeeper, and Ralph, the mouse who lived under the grandfather clock.

Honestly, Henry, sometimes I wonder how you get into these things.

Yard Apes! yelled Ramona, her name for the sort of boys who always got the best balls, who were always first on the playground, and who chased their soccer balls through other people's hopscotch games.

Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child.

Beezus has told her the way to remember how to spell the kind of principal who was the principal of a school was to remember the word ended in p-a-l, and not -p-l-e, was because the principal was her pal.

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That Ramona! thought Henry. Always causing him trouble on his route.

Matt was the only adult who understood Ralph. "Yes, sir, that mouse is a mouse in a million," he often told himself.

Don't let old Whaley get you down," he answered. "She likes you OK. You're a good kid.

a fad started by Yard Ape, who sometimes brought his lunch.

THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.

On the fourth night, just as I was facing the dismal prospect of finishing my only book and thereafter having nothing to do in the evenings but lie in the half light and listen to Katz snore, I was delighted, thrilled, sublimely gratified to find that some earlier user had left a Graham Greene paperback. If there's one thing the AT teaches, it is low level ecstasy, something we can all do with more of in our lives