Adam

“Jem tugged the floral curtains open just above Mum's bed. She stretched and said, "Oh!" because there is something especially cosy about pulling open floral curtains in your camper van and finding the Mediterranean Sea shining hundreds of feet below you and seabirds twirling all around you. Especially if the kettle has just boiled.”
― Frank Cottrell Boyce, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again

“There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.”
― Richard Scarry, Busy, Busy Town

“Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.”
― Richard Scarry, Busy, Busy Town

“I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars