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Beyond the Laughing Sky

Book by Michelle Cuevas · 6 quotes · Imagination, Tree, Abandoned Buttons

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All Imagination Tree Abandoned Buttons Adopting Age Algae Band Beauty Books Bottle Caterpillars Change Clock Clouds Collect Daisy Dances Earth Elements Experiments

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“The missions were always changing- sometimes collecting jars of rain, paper bags of hiccups, adopting lost moonbeams and folding them into cake batter. Or perhaps investigating glittering slug trails left in the moonlight, finding the owners of abandoned buttons, or playing the sousaphone for caterpillars still in their cocoons.”

Imagination Rain Missions Moonlight Jars Adopting Caterpillars Paper Bags Hiccups Collect Sousaphone Abandoned Buttons Moonbeams Cake Batter Slug Trails

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“The fort. Where the pair stored their painted scenes and books of made-up languages, their two-man band, and the tiny matchbox bed plus accessories that they made in case, someday, their experiments in the world of shrinking finally panned out.”

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“Change is the nature of nature,'" she read. "'For example, stars expand as they grow older. They grow from a star, to a red super-giant, to a supernova. When a massive star explodes at the end of its life, the explosion dispenses different elements-helium, carbon, oxygen, iron, nickel-across the universe, scattering starduest. That stardust now makes up the planets, including ours.”

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“things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue.”

Age Science Magic Tree Moon Clouds Spells Name Tide Dances

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“He saw the kind of beauty yellow flowers have growing over a carpet of dead leaves. The beauty of cracks forming a mosaic in a dry riverbed, of emerald-green algae at the base of a seawall, of a broken shard from a blue bottle. The beauty of a window smudged with tiny prints. The beauty of wild weeds.”

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“A place where a clock's minute and hour hands spread away from its face, flapping like wings. A place where he'd pluck a daisy and watch the petals whirl like the propellers of a helicopter. Where he'd throw a handful of sand, and the grains would buzz away like a swarm of gnats. Where colorful fruits on a tree would burst into flight, and new ones would perch in their place.”

Tree Wings Flight Clock Sand Petals Fruits Imaginations Daisy Similes Helicopter Propellers

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