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Eventually, her designed genetic material will be implanted into my egg, which first would have had my genetic material removed. Then my mother could become my baby. And someday, when I get old, I can become her baby. Then she will be mine, and I will be hers.Jack Gantos
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Granny was right, ' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.Jack Gantos
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I like Saturdays. They are my best thinking days. It is my day to try to find that one special thought that turns into an idea that I remember forever and becomes a part of who I am, like a freckle or a finger or an ear. Even before I open my eyes I take a deep breath and try to picture something, anything, as if my brain were a keyhole where I can spy on my future. So each Saturday morning I try to find a little piece of a thought, and then I keep turning it over in my mind until it turns into a complete idea and at the end of the day when I'm lying in bed I put the whole thought into a little room in my head so I can remember it.Jack Gantos
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I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.Jack Gantos
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You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.Jack Gantos
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Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug, ' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.Jack Gantos
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Not romantic, " she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped and lived a lovely life sailing along the Nile without him and his big ideas ruining her kingdom.Jack Gantos
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You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.Jack Gantos
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Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.Jack Gantos
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Your pony, he said as he stomped toward me. "I'm the farrier who is here to fix your pony."" I thought you were a Hells Angel, " I said." I used to be, " he replied. "But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.Jack Gantos