February 2010
1 post
“She felt angry and miserable. His badger claws dug into the earth and he walked...”
– Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (195)
January 2010
17 posts
““Why do daemons have to settle?” Lyra said. “I want...”
– Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (167)
“On a personal level, the loyalty and playfulness of his own pets support Sendak...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Dogs, CJM
“By looking closely at the spaces Sendak constructs, you can discover how he...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Theater, CJM
“What interests me,” Sendak once said, “is what children do at a...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Ungovernable Emotions, CJM
“Sendak likes to blur the lines between tidy categories of good and evil asking...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Angels and Devils, CJM
“To Sendak, childhood can be messy, but there are important truths in the logic...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Kids: Innocence and Experience, CJM
“Sendak has always insisted that a child’s full range of emotions, from...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Kids: Innocence and Experience, CJM
“If you didn’t like it, why didn’t you quit?
To do what?...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (414-416)
“Well, I guess you might not pick Belva out of the crowd walking down the street....”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (408)
“It reminded them all of home, he supposed, but back then they’d only been...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (399-400)
“Which led to a discussion about responsibility. It was like with the dogs, Trudy...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (297)
““What’s wrong?” she said.
He could have told her then about...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (252)
“It wasn’t until she pulled his head up that he realized he had crossed his...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (128-129)
“They worked hard to distract one another whenever they recognized bleakness...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (169-170)
“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (162)
“There followed, for each of them, good days and bad, and often Edgar’s...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (161)