Noticing Sentences

The dedication is just beautiful and should absolutely not be missed. Adults-- I am feeling, increasingly, like this would be an amazing book to pair with The Catcher in the Rye  I have lived a great deal among the grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them. p5 I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. p5 _________ On making the discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what he said. Grown-ups are like that... p15 _______________ Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people. p17 He did not know how the world is simplified for kings. To them, all men are subjects. p41 It is only with the heart that one can see...

Descriptions Because she wished so badly for protection, maybe her mother mistook his bloodlust for power and his brutality for strength. p8 Then he left with Mercedes, and Ofelia was alone for the first time with her mother in this old house smelling of cold winters and the sadness of people from ages past.p 7 But the darkness in the house was far more frightening, and the girl knew that it was fed by the man who'd brought them here. p22-23 She was one of those women who looked for strength in men instead of finding it in her own heart. p48 Ferreira drew comfort from his profession in these dark times: he liked being a healer when most others embraced destruction, but even healing had become a deadly task. p118 Sometimes we need to see what we feel so we can know about it. p142 Libraries don't keep secrets; they reveal them. p165 Adults/ Kids Learning about adults' secrets means learning to understand their world-- and how to survive it. p18 Children do...