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"... Up at the very top of the shed was the biggest vampire bat you'd ever see! He was hanging upside down asleep, but the smell of me rising up to him would probably wake him up at any minute!"
(actually a hornet's nest)

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"I did what I do every night before I go to sleep, I checked to make sure everything was there. The way there are more and more kids coming into the Home every day, I had to make sure no one had run off with any of my things.:

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"Go ahead and cry, Bud, you're home."

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...I said," I'll probably be OK ma'am, but there's one thing that I'm wondering about." "What's that sweetheart?" I pointed at the doors and said,"Are those locked?"

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'' I feel like I've been holding on to it until the rightful owner came along, and it looks to me like he's finally showed up. ''

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Lefty Lewis said,"Aren't you sleepy?" This was perfect! I could pretend I was falling asleep and then come up with some answers that would get me to Grand Rapids for sure. I yawned real big."A little bit, sir"

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"...Rules to make a better life and a better liar out of yourself. Always make your lie short and easy to remember."

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"I held the mop so that it was floating on top of the water in the bucket. I was pretending it was that underwater boat in the book Momma read to me, Twenty Thousand Leaks Under the Sea." This shows that not only is he imaginative, but he also remembers Momma through his memories of her reading Bud a story. Bud doesn't just remember Momma by holding onto her and the things she gave him. He remembers through memory.

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Most of the time since Momma died, if someone even walks close to where I'm sleeping I'm up in a flash....

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"I held the mop so that it was floating on the top of the water in the bucket. I was pretending it was that underwater boat in the book Momma read to me, Twenty Thousand Leaks Under the Sea."

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He used a knife to slice the hornet's nest.Even though the fish head guards hurt him with their razor sharp teeth he didn't cry like a baby but continued to get out of the shed.He continued finding help to get to Grand Rapids.

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" When you make up your mind to do something, hurry up and do it, if you wait you might talk yourself out of what you wanted in the first place."
Bud is very suspicious about the things that are happening around him. He makes note of his surroundings and then creates rules for himself to keep him safe. All the rules that are made by him mostly help him in his life.

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I wasn't sure if it was her lips or her hand , but something whispered to me in a language that I didn't have any trouble understanding, it said " Go ahead and cry, Bud, you're home."

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"One hundred and twenty miles. It didn't take too much time before I figured out that twenty four hours worth of walking was a lot longer than I thought it would be."

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" You don't believe me, I'll show you."
This shows that even when Mr.C that these rocks are almost as common as rocks but when he said his had words Herman still was suspicious and so Bud said this quote to tell that he does have these rocks.

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"...Its funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then . . . woop, zoop, sloop . . . before you can say Jack Robinson they've gone and grew a lot bigger then you ever thought they could."

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Jimmy said, "Awww, man. Look, this child ain't no kin of mine. What's your
momma's name, boy?"
I said, "You ain't my daddy." I pointed right at Herman E. Calloway's big belly. "You know it's you." All the eyes jumped over on Herman E. Calloway.
my finger pointed, cleared my throat and said, "I know it's you."

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Jimmy said, "Once you get something in your belly you've got to be straight with me, you've got some explaining to do, we'll feed you but you've got to tell us the truth. Do we have a deal?" This shows that Jimmy  and the other people in the band wants to know what has happened in Bud's life.

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"...I was pretending it was that underwater boat in the book Momma read to me, Twenty Thousand Leaks Under the Sea." Bud is actually using his imagination to pretend to act from the book his mom read to him.

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"... I know being with a house with 3 girls sounds terrible Jerry, but it's a lot better being with a boy who is a few years older than you.I am the one who has a lot of trouble, and besides a older boy will want to fight, but those little girls are going to treat you real good. They are going to treat you like a pet or something ."

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"One hundred and twenty miles. It didn't take too much time before I found out that twenty-four hours' worth of walking was a lot longer than I thought it would be."
This shows that Bud knows that it is a long distance but still tries to walk to Grand Rapids.

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"...I'll practice on this so much that I'll be just as good as you guys are in three weeks!"

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"...the idea started as a tiny seed, and it grew bigger and stronger into a mighty maple."

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"Aha, you doggone Amoses, that hurt, but now I get my revenge!"

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"... I was carrying Momma inside me and there wasn't anyone or anything that could away from that..."

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Steady Eddie said, "You're all right litte man, you're a tough little nut... Most folks your age would be bawling their eyes out if they got teased as hard..."

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"If I was a normal kid I would've busted out crying, but I just stood there breathing hard."

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"On the side of the box some real big red letters said as clear as anything, URGENT: CONTAINS HUMAN BLOOD!!! ... The only kind of people who carry human blood around in the car were vampires! ... This guy figured he'd rather have my fresh blood than blood out of a bottle! "
He thought that Lefty Lewis was a vampire, but actually its a normal red pop which doesn't actually say that it has no "URGENT: CONTAINS HUMAN BLOOD!!!" It was actually just a normal person.