The Best Halloween Ever Quotes

“So was that it, Beth?” Charlie asked me. “The mice and the guinea pigs? Was that, like, the last straw, and then everybody said, ‘All right, that’s it, the last straw … no Halloween’? Was that it?” “I don’t think so,” I said. “I think it was everything else.” There had been a lot of everything else because Labor Day was late, so school started late. Parents had an extra week to buy their kids school shoes and get their hair cut; kids had an extra week to finish the fort or tree house or bike trail or whatever else they’d been building since June; and teachers had an extra week to pray they wouldn’t have any Herdmans, I guess… . And of course the Herdmans had an extra week, too, to tear up whatever they’d missed during the summer. That turned out to be a lot and, as usual with the Herdmans, it wasn’t always things you would expect them to do. The police guard at the bank said that he had seen them come in. “Can’t miss them!” he said. “So I went right over and stood by the big fish tank. I figure, if I see a bank robber coming I’ll defend the money, but if I see those kids coming I’ll defend the fish.” He shook”
― Barbara Robinson, The Best Halloween Ever

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― Barbara Robinson, The Best Halloween Ever

“costumes.”
― Barbara Robinson, The Best Halloween Ever