Smoke and MirrorsSixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd. Three years ago, a skateboarding accident caused some minor brain damage and made him a little stranger. His career-driven parents mostly leave him alone, and he spends much of his time living in his imagination. When Andrea, whom no one else can see, appears to Simon in class, he is fascinated by her and strikes up a friendship, even though he knows she may be pure hallucination - he's had imaginary friends before. Andrea says she is there to "help" him, but before the story ends, Simon discovers that it is he who needs to help Andrea, not the other way around. |
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... sure he applied the same solution to me . More money could always be made selling bonds to greedy investors on manicured putting greens . My mother's favourite word in the English lan- guage is closing . " I'm closing on the Ferguson ...
... sure he applied the same solution to me . More money could always be made selling bonds to greedy investors on manicured putting greens . My mother's favourite word in the English lan- guage is closing . " I'm closing on the Ferguson ...
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... sure others would notice . The computer's sound was off , but I saw images on the screen . I leaned hard backwards to see what she was doing , and it seemed that she was checking her email . Mrs. Dalway picked up her voluminous volume ...
... sure others would notice . The computer's sound was off , but I saw images on the screen . I leaned hard backwards to see what she was doing , and it seemed that she was checking her email . Mrs. Dalway picked up her voluminous volume ...
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... sure I was okay , even when no one was in the room . By the time I left the hospital , I had regained most of my memory , but it had holes in it . I couldn't remem- ber if I liked Coke or Pepsi better . I couldn't remember which channel ...
... sure I was okay , even when no one was in the room . By the time I left the hospital , I had regained most of my memory , but it had holes in it . I couldn't remem- ber if I liked Coke or Pepsi better . I couldn't remember which channel ...
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... sure how she knew about it . Out of the blue she started nam- ing trees and birds . " Oak , chokecherry , tamarack , alder , hemlock , maple . Goldfinch , purple martin , grackle , blue jay , mourning dove . " It was beautiful walking ...
... sure how she knew about it . Out of the blue she started nam- ing trees and birds . " Oak , chokecherry , tamarack , alder , hemlock , maple . Goldfinch , purple martin , grackle , blue jay , mourning dove . " It was beautiful walking ...
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Page 19 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake ; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 9 - ... stool while he rolls about on the ground a large jar which serves as a churn and is placed on its side in order that it may more easily be rolled about to produce the agitation of the cream which results in butter. (Courtesy of the University Museum of Philadelphia) 175. Agriculture and cattle-breeding produced most of the wealth which formed the basis of Sumerian life, but there were other important sources of wealth.
Page 203 - I could tell from the look in her eyes that she did not know where she was. And she did not know who I was.
Page 124 - One source of evidence was trial by water. The unfortunate woman would be put in a pond. If she floated she was a witch. If she sank she was not. This event, the outcome of the experiment, was, by consensus, the information-as-thing needed for the identification of a witch. Nowadays it would be denied, by consensus, that the exact same event constituted the information that it had previously been accepted, by consensus, as being.
Page 67 - I would have to keep my wits about me. I would have to be more careful.
Page 128 - I did not want to go home. I couldn't bring myself to go back to school. I thought I heard someone call my name again, a nickname I hadn't heard for a long while. "Slime-on.
Page 34 - I wasn't going to be the one to break it up. I had my own problems with my right brain probably not even knowing what my left brain was doing.
Page 87 - Whatever was going on, I didn't want to be part of it. They looked very sullen. "Simon, we need to talk to you," my mother said, her voice sounding shaky.
Page 114 - She was the first girl I had ever kissed. She was the first for a lot of things, and maybe I should have apologized to Lydia and followed her.