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Important Quotations Explained

 
A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.
 
 
 
His muscles and hands weren't the only parts of his body that had toughened over the past several weeks. His heart had hardened as well.
 
 
 
"If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, He cries to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, if only."
 
 
 
 
 
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"You look tired"
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