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We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And

But I'm your brother." Daniel sounded genuinely wounded. "You," she announced, "are a turd in the punch bowl of life.

Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He

This is the final book about Brian

he's not stupid, he's just not observant.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

The thing with dying was to try to not die and make death take you with surprise.

The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He

It must have been a snapper

There were these things to do.

The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.

He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The

You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man.

He widened the hole with his finger and looked inside.

Read like a wolf eats.

[Russel] might not make it, he might die on the ice, but he would not die with fear. He would die working not to die...

Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I'd be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I'm the one getting messed up. It

If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.

Then we knew he was lying.

You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination
except that it was all reality.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

How could he? The

Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen.

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.

Running with dogs is like dancing with winter

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

The mosquitoes. Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry.

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful.

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

He could not at first leave the fire. It

The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce.

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.

Tomorrow. He watched the flames and smiled. Tomorrow I'll see. All things come tomorrow.

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. All

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

moose was a moose. There

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin.

Everything was green, so green it went into him.

There. I've poked my leg, rolled down a bank and been hit in the head with the canoe.
All simple things. All fixable things.

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.