My One Hundred Adventures (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• “"I realize that everyone in the whole world is at the end of the day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will every know." —Jane Fielding”

  Jane Fielding

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• Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

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• We affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

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• All summers take me back to the sea.

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• No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

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• “We all belong here equally, Jane,” she says. “Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us.

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• I want something I know not what, which is what adventures are about. The step into the know-not-what.

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• I know Sunday is supposed to be the beginning of the week but my mother’s Sunday tranquility makes it feel as if we are putting the week to bed, pulling the covers up under its chin, blessing what has been and closing its eyes for sleep.

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• enough in herself alone to have made us. That she has dreamt us into being.

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• He is a tall man with shaggy hair and bad teeth, in a suit too big for his sharp, elbowy frame. He looks like a clothes hanger.

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• bits of sponge and sea life. Then she names them. And in that moment we all believe her. It is mermaid hair, seahorse halter, Persephone weed, your father.

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1. Polly Horvath (Author)

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• BC Book Prize's Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize (2009, Winner)

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• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Family Life › New Experiences
• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Social Issues › New Experiences
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Action & Adventure
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