Paperboy Quotes

Mam was working in the kitchen when my parents got back from eating out. I went to the top of the stairs to try to hear what they were talking about. (3.128)

She said we made a good pair because she couldn't write very well and I had the best handwriting she had ever seen for a little man. That's what she called me from the first day she came to live wi...

Plus I promised Mam I would never tell what happened to my yellow-handled knife. Mam might say that typing is cheating but I need to see the words on paper to make sure everything happened the way...

Get on back to the house, Little Man. You know yo' mammy and pappy's home. I fried you some chicken for dinner and they's waiting.I didn't feel like trying to say anything. I knocked again. She ope...

I told Mam I tripped over a curb trying to get home before dark. I didn't like to Mam very often because I knew she would catch me quicker than most grown-ups. (3.124)

The glass in her hand looked like it held only ice water at first but when he had moved closer I smelled the whiskey. Now you listen to me. She stepped toward me and raised her finger. I was hoping...

But it was no big secret that the thing worrying me the most was collecting the money for the newspapers each week on Friday night. The idea of going up to a house and ringing a doorbell was swelli...

Are you the boy who walks with his colored maid to the bus stop? (2.43)

The paper route was where I met all the new people in my life and where all the bad stuff happened. And some good stuff too. At least I think it was good. I'm still trying to figure all of it out a...

She said the problem was that my lips tightened like a clenched fist and the air couldn't get through. The more I tried to say words that started with a B and P the tighter my lips would close up o...