"Ramona Forever" Quotes
In "Ramona Forever," Ramona Quimby navigates the ups and downs of family changes and growing up with her usual spirited charm.
childrens | 150 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is sometimes hard to be a sister when I have to be home with Willa Jean instead of playing with my friends.
Ramona did not consider herself a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
I guess I am too young to drive. But I’m not too young to help my mother. I am a great help to her.
When things went wrong, as they sometimes did, Ramona never lost hope. She always believed that something exciting would happen around the next corner.
Sometimes Ramona wished her family could be more like the Cleavers on Leave It to Beaver and less like the Quimbys on Klickitat Street.
Ramona was proud of her father because he was so good at his job. She wanted to be good at something too, but what could she do?
Ramona’s face burned. She had wanted to be the first one to write a book, but her mother had beaten her to it.
Being a pest is a hard job, but somebody has to do it.
Ramona felt a little guilty about making the grown-ups laugh by being funny when she had been sent home from school for being funny. But not very guilty.
Sometimes Ramona felt that her life was a series of embarrassments.
