FEVER 1793 by Laurie Anderson

"[A]n ominous silence pressed in on the room as the fever penetrated deeper."  ---p.204

The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo

Nothing ever really disturbed our life until some ten years age,
when a small bear came down out of the mountains.
Nothing was ever to be the same again.

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Time, sometimes the time just slips away

And your left with yesterday

Left with the memories

Endlessly…

There is a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar

“I’ll give you a dollar if you’ll be my friend”

He stretched his mouth so wide, it was hard to tell

whether it was a smile or a frown.