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Beverly Cleary Quote: “Being kissed by Gerhart was disappointing. I had expected a kiss to feel more like the time in Yamhill when I stuck my finger in the electric socket, only nice.”

101. “Being kissed by Gerhart was disappointing. I had expected a kiss to feel more like the time in Yamhill when I stuck my finger in the electric socket, only nice.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. “Your turn,” she said to Ramona as if she were being generous.”

102. “Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. “Your turn,” she said to Ramona as if she were being generous.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “I’m not a pest,” said Ramona indignantly, and to get even she stretched one of Susan’s curls and whispered, “Boing!”

103. “I’m not a pest,” said Ramona indignantly, and to get even she stretched one of Susan’s curls and whispered, “Boing!”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “Then she decided her mother had not really guessed because she often asked where the fire was when Ramona was in a hurry.”

104. “Then she decided her mother had not really guessed because she often asked where the fire was when Ramona was in a hurry.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “Nobody had to tell Ramona about disappointment.”

105. “Nobody had to tell Ramona about disappointment.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “She thought about Susan, who always acted big. In kindergarten there was no worse crime than acting big.”

106. “She thought about Susan, who always acted big. In kindergarten there was no worse crime than acting big.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “Safely past the livery stable, we crossed back over Maple Street. We usually met a relative or two. Sometimes it was Uncle Fred, my father’s oldest brother, who had a fascinating bald head. After we passed him, Mother said, “You mustn’t stare at Uncle Fred’s bald head. You might hurt his feelings.” How could I hurt his feelings when I so admired his bald head? I once tried to cut off my own hair so I could be bald, too.”

107. “Safely past the livery stable, we crossed back over Maple Street. We usually met a relative or two. Sometimes it was Uncle Fred, my father’s oldest brother, who had a fascinating bald head. After we passed him, Mother said, “You mustn’t stare at Uncle Fred’s bald head. You might hurt his feelings.” How could I hurt his feelings when I so admired his bald head? I once tried to cut off my own hair so I could be bald, too.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “Her mother had said the words she longed to hear. Her mother could not get along without her. She felt warm, and safe and comforted.”

108. “Her mother had said the words she longed to hear. Her mother could not get along without her. She felt warm, and safe and comforted.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “Clank, crash, clank. Ramona forgot about her father being out of a job, she forgot how cross he had been since he gave up smoking, she forgot about her mother coming home tired from work and about Beezus being grouchy lately. She was filled with joy.”

109. “Clank, crash, clank. Ramona forgot about her father being out of a job, she forgot how cross he had been since he gave up smoking, she forgot about her mother coming home tired from work and about Beezus being grouchy lately. She was filled with joy.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “I did not mind cleaning up my room, dusting, making the salad, but I resented her manner of asking me.”

110. “I did not mind cleaning up my room, dusting, making the salad, but I resented her manner of asking me.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “She felt good from making a lot of noise, she felt good from the hard work from walking so far in her tin can stilts, she felt good from calling a grown-up pieface and from the triumph of singing backwards from ninety-nine to one. She felt good from being out after dark with the rain on her face and the streetlights shining down on her.”

111. “She felt good from making a lot of noise, she felt good from the hard work from walking so far in her tin can stilts, she felt good from calling a grown-up pieface and from the triumph of singing backwards from ninety-nine to one. She felt good from being out after dark with the rain on her face and the streetlights shining down on her.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “The world, Ramona decided, was full of people who used their dictionary skills and probably weren’t any fun. Then.”

112. “The world, Ramona decided, was full of people who used their dictionary skills and probably weren’t any fun. Then.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “She did not want her father’s hair to grow thin or her mother’s hair to grow gray. She wanted her parents to stay exactly as they were forever and ever.”

113. “She did not want her father’s hair to grow thin or her mother’s hair to grow gray. She wanted her parents to stay exactly as they were forever and ever.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “She wanted a grown-up to be wrong for a change. She was tired of the rightness of grown-ups.”

114. “She wanted a grown-up to be wrong for a change. She was tired of the rightness of grown-ups.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “Ramona felt sad and somehow lonely, as if she were left out of something important, because her family was in trouble and there was nothing she could do.”

115. “Ramona felt sad and somehow lonely, as if she were left out of something important, because her family was in trouble and there was nothing she could do.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “What’s the use of having a motorcycle if you can’t go tearing around staying out late?” Ralph asked reasonably.”

116. “What’s the use of having a motorcycle if you can’t go tearing around staying out late?” Ralph asked reasonably.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “She didn’t have to go and tell that, thought Ramona, feeling that her mother had betrayed her by telling, as if it were funny, something she had done a long time ago.”

117. “She didn’t have to go and tell that, thought Ramona, feeling that her mother had betrayed her by telling, as if it were funny, something she had done a long time ago.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “History of Drama did leave me with one valuable thought. One of the playwrights – was it Lope de Vega? – believed that ideas were somehow spewed into the atmosphere to be seized by anyone with a receptive mind, and that upon receiving an idea one should use it immediately because others were sure to pluck the same idea from the spheres. This one wisp of philosophy, no more than a sentence or two from a college course, has haunted me all my writing life.”

118. “History of Drama did leave me with one valuable thought. One of the playwrights – was it Lope de Vega? – believed that ideas were somehow spewed into the atmosphere to be seized by anyone with a receptive mind, and that upon receiving an idea one should use it immediately because others were sure to pluck the same idea from the spheres. This one wisp of philosophy, no more than a sentence or two from a college course, has haunted me all my writing life.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “She had lost interest in crayoning.”

119. “She had lost interest in crayoning.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “Scrimp and pinch to make ends meet, thought Ramona, liking the sound of the words.”

120. “Scrimp and pinch to make ends meet, thought Ramona, liking the sound of the words.”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “My reading, secluded in my room with the door shut, annoyed Mother. She constantly talked to me through the door and accused me of being snooty. I was not snooty. I was confused and unhappy, and wanted time to think without Mother telling me what to think.”

121. “My reading, secluded in my room with the door shut, annoyed Mother. She constantly talked to me through the door and accused me of being snooty. I was not snooty. I was confused and unhappy, and wanted time to think without Mother telling me what to think.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “Until this minute she had thought all adults were supposed to like all children. She understood by now misunderstandings were to be expected- she had had several with teachers – and often children and grown-ups did not agree, but things somehow worked out. For a grown-up to actually dislike a child and try to shame her, she was sure had to be wrong, very, very wrong.”

122. “Until this minute she had thought all adults were supposed to like all children. She understood by now misunderstandings were to be expected- she had had several with teachers – and often children and grown-ups did not agree, but things somehow worked out. For a grown-up to actually dislike a child and try to shame her, she was sure had to be wrong, very, very wrong.”

— Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quote: “For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad...”

123. “For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad...”

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Beverly Cleary Quote: “Miss Binney stood in front of her class and began to read aloud from Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, a book that was a favorite of Ramona’s because, unlike so many books for her age, it was neither quiet and sleepy nor sweet and pretty.”

124. “Miss Binney stood in front of her class and began to read aloud from Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, a book that was a favorite of Ramona’s because, unlike so many books for her age, it was neither quiet and sleepy nor sweet and pretty.”

— Beverly Cleary

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