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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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Book:Ramona and Her Mother

Source: Ramona and Her Mother

“Ramona felt sad and somehow lonely, as if she were left out of something important, because her family was in trouble and there was nothing she could do.”

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Book:Ramona and Her Father

Source: Ramona and Her Father

“Maybe her father was angry with her. Maybe he had gone away because she tried to make him stop smoking. She thought she was saving his life, but maybe she was being mean to him. Her mother said she must not annoy her father, because he was worried about being out of work. Maybe she had made him so angry he did not love her anymore. Maybe he had gone away because he did not love her. She thought of all the scary things she had seen on television-houses that had fallen down in earthquakes, people shooting people, big hairy men on motorcycles -and she knew she needed her father to keep her safe.”

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Book:Ramona and Her Father

Source: Ramona and Her Father

“She knew her mother and father loved one another, but, sometimes when they were tired and hurried, or when they had long, serious conversations after the girls had gone to bed, she wondered and worried, because she knew other children whose parents had stopped loving each one another. Now she knew everything was all right.”

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Book:Ramona Quimby, age 8

Source: Ramona Quimby, age 8