"All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake"

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Source : "Ramona and Her Mother". Book by Beverly Cleary, books.google.ru. 2001.

Beverly Cleary

#Cake Quotes #Rose Quotes #Littles Quotes

“As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.”
“Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.”
“A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.”
“It's hard to pin down what the politics would be, in a way. For me the politics are very visual and felt, thought, seen, but not necessarily put into words. The confusions and conditions within the work are the politics. The fact that a lot of the time the first thing people want to talk to me about is the racial angle, which is a part of the work and I am happy to talk about it, but it's not necessarily the first thing on my mind when I am making something.”
“As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.”
“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”

Source : Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.245, Penguin
“When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.”
“I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.”

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