Ramona and Her Mother Quotes

“All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake”
― beverly cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Haven't you noticed grown-ups aren't perfect?" asked Mrs. Quimby. "Especially when they're tired."
"Then how come you expect kids to be so perfect all the time?" demanded Ramona.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Nobody had to tell Ramona about disappointment.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Besides, why wasn’t the top of the bottle screwed on tight? Because some grown-up had not screwed it on, that’s why. Children weren’t the only people who did things wrong.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“How can there be no such word as can't? Ramona wondered. Mrs. Rudge had just said can't. If there was so such word as can't then Mrs. Rudge could not have said there was no such word as can't. Therefore, what Mrs. Rudge said could not be true.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. “Your turn,” she said to Ramona as if she were being generous.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Her mother had said the words she longed to hear. Her mother could not get along without her. She felt warm, and safe and comforted.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Grown-ups are supposed to be perfect."
Both her parents laughed. "Well, they are!" Ramona insisted, annoyed by their laughter.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Scrimp and pinch to make ends meet, thought Ramona, liking the sound of the words.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“She didn't have to go and tell that, thought Ramona, feeling that her mother had betrayed her by telling, as if it were funny, something she had done a long time ago.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Then she decided her mother had not really guessed because she often asked where the fire was when Ramona was in a hurry.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“But maybe when he has worked at ShopRite longer, he will like it better. New jobs take getting used to.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“were poking a little fun at Ramona. “Yes, ma’am!” said her father, and saluted as if she were somebody important. This time Ramona had to laugh.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“As Ramona sat letting these thoughts slide through her mind, the telephone rang in the kitchen.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Ramona understood what Beezus meant, because she felt sad too, and her stomach felt tight when her father came home tired and discouraged after a day in the checkout line. People were in a hurry, many were cross because the line was long, and some customers acted as if he were to blame because prices were so high.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Nobody had to tell Ramona life was full of disappointments. She already knew.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Her age was difficult too- not old enough to sit down with her mother and sew something she wanted to sew and too old to go pulling out a whole box of Kleenex and flinging it all over the house like Willa Jean. People should not think being seven-and-a-half was easy because it wasn't”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Don’t dawdle.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“She felt all churned up inside, as if she didn't know whether to cry or burst out of the house shouting, My mother and father had a fight!”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Beezus”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Maybe grown-ups weren't perfect, but they should be, her parents most of all. They should be cheerful, loving, patient, never sick and never tired. Fun too.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“Conversation from the living room was boring, all”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

“I simply cannot put up with Ramona another day.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother