Ramona and Her Mother

“Nobody had to tell Ramona life was full of disappointments. She already knew.”

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“Ramona understood what Beezus meant, because she felt sad too, and her stomach felt tight when her father came home tired and discouraged after a day in the checkout line. People were in a hurry, many were cross because the line was long, and some customers acted as if he were to blame because prices were so high.”

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“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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“Her age was difficult too- not old enough to sit down with her mother and sew something she wanted to sew and too old to go pulling out a whole box of Kleenex and flinging it all over the house like Willa Jean. People should not think being seven-and-a-half was easy because it wasn't”

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“She felt all churned up inside, as if she didn't know whether to cry or burst out of the house shouting, My mother and father had a fight!”

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“Maybe grown-ups weren't perfect, but they should be, her parents most of all. They should be cheerful, loving, patient, never sick and never tired. Fun too.”

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“Haven't you noticed grown-ups aren't perfect?" asked Mrs. Quimby. "Especially when they're tired." "Then how come you expect kids to be so perfect all the time?" demanded Ramona.”

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“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.”

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“Grown-ups are supposed to be perfect." Both her parents laughed. "Well, they are!" Ramona insisted, annoyed by their laughter.”

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

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“How can there be no such word as can't? Ramona wondered. Mrs. Rudge had just said can't. If there was so such word as can't then Mrs. Rudge could not have said there was no such word as can't. Therefore, what Mrs. Rudge said could not be true.”

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