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Virginia Hamilton

  • To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

  • He heard sound coming. Rain, like hundreds of mice running through corn.

  • You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

    • Virginia Hamilton,
    • in The Horn Book ()

Virginia Hamilton, U.S. writer

(1936 - 2002)