favorite Quotes

“Treehorn liked to watch television. Now he lay on his stomach in front of the television set and watched one of his favorite programs. He had fifty-six favorite programs. “

“And even though his face was wet with tears he wasn’t supposed to cry when he was alive, I couldn’t see him as anything less than my brother, my favorite, my only.”

“In the bookcases of their apartment were four volumes of poetry which had written by Myron Krupnik. But the fourth book was her favorite. Her father’s photograph showed him bald and bearded, the way she had always know him. The poems were soft sounding and quiet, when he read them to her. The book was called Bittersweet; and it said, inside, ‘To someone special: Anastasia’.”

“Sofia in 1968 has photographs of Paul McCartney all over her bedroom wall, because he is her favorite Beatle.”

“And when I was asleep I had one of my favorite dreams… And in the dream nearly everyone on the earth is dead.”

“Willie took Gem a treat every afternoon all week.”

Little Spook’s baby sister is very small but she has the most enormous voice. When Tiny Spook plays her favorite game of copying noises, especially Father Spook’s haunting cries, the Spook family have to stuff cotton wool in their ears!

“Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mother’s never have favourites, but if their Mother HAD had a favourite, it might have been Roberta.”

“For a moment, twenty-five year old Emira was being paid thirty-two dollars an hour to dance in a grocery store with her best friend and favorite little human.”

“William was my favorite character and I would have liked to have known more of his inner feelings and thoughts. He had a very tough time.”

“My favorite, as I recall, was Flossie. Her father often referred fondly to her as “my fat fairy.”

how perfectly delighted they were with him, how much handsomer, how infinitely more agreeable they thought him than any individual among their male acquaintance, who had been at all a favourite before.