I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?
The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.
You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.
In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.
In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.
We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.