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Kevin Henkes _ Olive's Ocean
You know," he said, "when you were little and tired like this, I'd throw you over my shoulder and carry you home like a sack of rice. Sometimes I wish you were still that little. I wish I could still do that." "Da-ad. That is so embarrassing," is what she said. But sometimes she wished it, too. Sometimes she wished it with all her heart.
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Kevin Henkes _ Junonia
There was something wonderful - something potent even - about a present before it's unwrapped. Especially an unexpected one. Anything could be inside.
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Kevin Henkes _ Junonia
She decided that this kind of waiting - waiting for something good and bad tangled together - should be given its own special name.
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Kevin Henkes _ Junonia
...but when you see something only once a year it's always new, as if you're seeing it for the first time.
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Kevin Henkes _ The Year of Billy Miller
Papa?" she repeated. She rolled her eyes dramatically. "That is so babyish, I can hardly believe it."
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Kevin Henkes _ Olive's Ocean
People she loved. Happy people. Lots of people.
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Kevin Henkes _ The Year of Billy Miller
he could manage. Ms. Silver happened to be walking by
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Kevin Henkes _ Olive's Ocean
Martha had come up with the nickname Godbee by accident when she was younger than Lucy. Dorothy Boyle had been referred to as Grandma Boyle or Grandma B, for short, to distinguish her from Martha's other grandmother, Anne Hubbard. As a toddler, Martha couldn't pronounce Grandma B correctly, or had misheard it, and had, for as long as she could remember, called her favorite grandmother Godbee. For some reason, it had caught on. Not only with everyone in Martha's family, but with some of Godbee's friends and neighbors, too.
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Kevin Henkes _ Olive's Ocean
The glittery feeling. She'd named it because it felt to her as if her skin and everything beneath it briefly became shiny and jumpy and bubbly, as if glitter materialized inside her, then rose quickly through the layers of tissue that comprised her, momentarily sparkling all over the surface of her skin before dissipating into the air. Martha
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Kevin Henkes _ Olive's Ocean
The sky was full - of blue and sun. The ocean reflected it and was flat and glossy like a fancy ballroom floor. To Martha, this was the most beautiful sight, a miracle. The ocean made her feel insignificant and slightly afraid, but in an exhilarating way. Her inclination was not to walk or dance across the water's surface. Nor to swim through it. She wanted to *be* the ocean
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Kevin Henkes _ Olive's Ocean
Home was the same as when Martha had left it, but because *she* had changed, her world seemed slightly different, as though she were seeing everything in sharper focus.
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Kevin Henkes _ Olive's Ocean
What do you do when you are really, really sad?" When you are full of dread, is what she really meant.Godbee exhaled through her nose, making a whistling sound. "Hmm. When I`m genuinely suffering I try to think of someone worse off than I am. And then, if it happens to be someone I know and I`m feeling particularly saintly, I try to do something nice for him or her.
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