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When the mist rises, and the smiling man comes walking, you must avoid large places at night. Keep to small.
What’s the difference between a cat and a comma?” “Dad—” “Well?” “I don’t know, what?” Her dad grinned. “A comma,” he informed her, “is a pause at the end of a clause.” Ollie saw where this was going. “Dad.” “But a cat,” her dad finished blithely, “has claws at the ends of its paws.”
“Well, I only learned reeling and writhing,” Brian said conversationally to the top of her head. “And then the different branches of arithmetic—ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.”
Same
You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing.
That’s completely true
Even bad things can lead to good. Maybe in sad times, it helps to think of that.”
Four graves, three stones, two sets of bones.
I love this sentence- and I will love it till the day I die—
Wherever you go in this big, gorgeous, hideous world, there is a ghost story waiting for you.
Quiet time, always quiet time, as if she could make her own head and heart be quiet.
Coco didn’t cry because she was weak. Coco cried because she felt things.
“How is she the clumsiest person ever on the ground, yet a squirrel when she’s climbing?” muttered Ollie. Brian grinned. “You’re kind of grumpy most of the time, but when things get bad, you’re the bravest. People can surprise you, Ollie-pop.”
“You’re the smiling man,” said Ollie slowly. She could barely believe it. “I thought—” She’d imagined a skull smile, a pumpkin-head smile. A scarecrow smile. She’d not imagined a kind smile, the sort that would make a scared kid not be scared anymore.
I imagined the same thing—
