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"I wanted to comfort Gloria Dump. And I decided the best way to do that would be to read her a book, read it loud enough to keep the ghosts away."

Opal and the preacher find out Winn-Dixie has a pathological fear of storms. Opal starts work at the pets shoe to find Otis playing guitar to all the animals out of their cages. He has been in prison.

India Opal Buloni moves to Florida as he father is the new preacher. Her Mama left them when Opal was three. Opal saves Winn-Dixie from the wrath of the local grocer and proceeds to smarten up the dog and vice versa. Winn-Dixie doesn't like being alone but will catch a mouse, befriend the local witch of an old lady, Gloria Dump, and win over just about anyone he meets from parrot to preacher.

"So the culture turns: short, shorter, even shorter, abbreviation, acronym, emoticon. Maybe explorers from a future generation will discover our discourse devolved to the point that combination of smiley and front faces could be used as the binary elements to express everything from love poems to eulogies to State of the Union addresses."

"Don't tell me what beauty is before I know it for myself".

WBs only friend Sir Oswald - a man without legs. WB sees many things in the Sherlock Homes vein. he stands up against the drunk showman injuring him with a glass bottle. WB wants to escape. one of the acrobats - Clarissa (he broke her teeth). a tenuous duo trying to fund a breakaway. Wb mark has a secret machine and someone lurks in the shadows. a note indicates whomever wants the machine is capable of murder.

Cairo 1920's. The Al Jawad family. Amina obedient servant wife married at fourteen. Husband is out nightly after midnight. They have three or four children. Description is third person but very well crafted. A few too many 'she is' sentences but is conveys action and emotion quite effortlessly. Shows world of Muslim woman, others call 'the bee', due to her dedication to the mundane practises of husband and home.

Augustus finch the showman purchases Wild Boy from a workhouse where he was abandoned and left to the mistreatment of Master Bledlow. Wild Boy is lured by the promises that he will see plenty.

London workhouse 1838 "Wild Boy" is purchased from Bledlow. An orphan born with hair covering his face and body. He is bought by a showman who promises zero kindness but the opportunity to 'see things'.

"Perhaps I haunted her as she haunted me." "I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead."

"Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments."

"So many stars it seemed like a celebration, a grand illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed."

"I would gladly take pen in hand and write a thick book on my misadventures here, but dare not for fear of being called a lying romanced."

"I would gladly take pen in hand and write a thick book on my misadventures here, but dare not for fear of being called a lying romanced."

"..you are a real of great price to me, but there are times when you an almighty trial to those who love you." "If you want anything done right you have to see to it yourself every time."

"The world hadn't ended. It had just begun." "I wanted to be alone. I wanted this just for me." "Ahead of me lay perfection. Could I stand it? Could I bear to mar it with my presence? I could. I had to have the gift of the moment - this great gift of the new century - to myself for one more minute, a few more precious seconds.

"There were so many things I wanted to see and do in my lifetime, but how many of them were in my reach?" "We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all."

"The century was about to change, but my own little life would not change with it." "There are so many things to learn, you see, and so little time is given us."