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More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. by Scott O'Dell About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, ― Lucy Grealy, quote from Autobiography of a Face It was only as the night wore on and the moon came out and the older kids, the big kids, went on their rounds that I began to realize why I felt so good. We walked around the neighborhood with our pillowcase sacks, running into other groups of kids and comparing notes: the house three doors down gave whole candy bars, while the house next to that gave only cheap mints. I hated this, but I assumed that one day my hair would grow in, and on that day the teasing would end. Sometimes kids would make fun of me, run past me, knock my hat off, and call me Baldy. By this time my hat had become part of me I took it off only at home. My hair was growing in, and I loved the way the top of the hood rubbed against it. I put on a winter coat, made a fish out of paper, which I hung on the end of a stick, and wrapped my face up in a scarf. My mother was the one who came up with the Eskimo idea. For the last couple of years I had been too sick to go out, but this year Halloween fell on a day when I felt quiet fine. Coming from Ireland, we had never thought of it as a big holiday, though Sarah and I usually went out trick-or treating.

I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was only October.

Lucy autobiography of a face