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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
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"There's one good thing about getting in trouble: It seems like you do it in steps. It seems like you don't just end up in trouble but that you kind of ease yourself into it. It also seems like the worse the trouble is that you get into, the more steps it takes to get there. Sort of like you're getting a bunch of little warnings on the way; sort of like if you really wanted to you could turn around."
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go."
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"Now, your mother and I made a deal when we first got married that if either one of us ever watched the 'wunnerful, wunnerful' Lawrence Welk Show or listened to country music the other one got to get a free divorce."
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"Every once in a while, Momma would make me go to Sunday school with Joey. Even though it was just a bunch of singing and coloring in coloring books and listening to Mrs. Davidson, I had learned one thing. I learned about getting saved. I learned how someone could come to you when you were feeling real, real bad and could take all of your problems away and make you feel better. I learned that the person who saved you, your personal saver, was sent by God to protect you and to help you out."
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"There was going to be a battle something like if Godzilla met King Kong, or if Frankenstein met Dracula, or like when champion wrestler Bobo Brazil meets the Sheik!"
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"My dinosaurs weren't even in their graves for three hours before someone rolled their rocks away. Maybe it was a lot easier for a bunch of angels to get a million dinosaurs to heaven than it was to get the saver of the whole world there, but I wished they'd given me a couple more hours."
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times are hard. Ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy on the run, and his momma never told him who his father was. But she left a clue: posters of Herman"
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

"It's times like this when someone is talking to you like you are a grown-up that you have to be careful not to pick your nose or dig your drawers out of your butt."
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"That was the only part I didn't mind. I loved sticking my nose right on top of Joey's head and smelling all those nice things baked together."
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"Leave it to Daddy Cool to kill a bird, then give it a funeral. Leave it to Daddy Cool to torture human kids at school all day long and never have his conscience"
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

"road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him—not hunger, not cops, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself. "A crackerjack"
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

"and his momma never told him who his father was. But she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud's got"
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

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