Jennings Michael Burch Quotes

Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them." "But if somebody loved one them," I asked, "wouldn't it be a good idea to let them have one? To keep, I mean?" "Yes, it would be. But not everyone would love them and take care of them as you would. I wish I could give them all away tomorrow." She looked at me. There were tears in her eyes. "But I can't. My heart would break if I saw just one of those animals lying by the wayside uncared for, unloved. No, Jennings. It's better if we keep them together.

The table and chair legs were like bars of the cage around me. This time they weren't keeping me in, they were keeping her out.

Tomorrow, or when you feel better, we’ll go to the store and buy you all the things you need.

A&P.

said, “The Guiding Light.

She smiled a wonderful smile and pinched my cheek.

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No dey don’t, stupid,” Stevie said. “Dey got some stuff on dere tails dat glows in the dark. Like dose statues, ya know.

Education is the most important thing you can have,” he said.

It’s the rules!” he snapped. “They cage the animals at night! It’s the rules.

My friend Doggie was gone, and I never even got a chance to say good-bye to him for keeps.