259 Quotes About Middle-grade

Leaves lift trees.

A word is a small song.

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there are about fifty who’d try to spoil it. We have to guard our good ideas, our happy thoughts, and fight for them. Because if we let those others snuff them out, well, we didn’t after all deserve them.

Positive Words Are Blessings - Kailin Gow, Amazon Lee Adventures

But even though I didn’t think he liked me very much, at least he hadn’t called me any names or told me I smelled like death.So that was an improvement.

Does it stop hurting because I have to start forgetting about them?” he asked, his lip quivering. “Because I don’t want to forget them.