“She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.”

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

“Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

“She wrote me a letter (Joan,1941) asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did”

“I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.”

“Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercialsand ideas?"She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckledface so solemn, as ifshe knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.”