Beverly Clearly Quotes

“‘I am not a pest,’ Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.”

“Nobody but a genuine grown-up was going to take her to school. If she had to, she would make a great big noisy fuss, and when Ramona made a great big noisy fuss, she usually got her own way. Great big noisy fusses were often necessary when a girl was the youngest member of her family and the youngest person on her block.”