S. A. Bodeen Quotes

United States, Author
August 6, 1965

S. A. Bodeen (or Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen) is an American children’s and young adult book author. She is best known for her young adult science fiction novels The Compound and The Gardener, and books for children and adults like the small brown dog with a wet pink nose and for her picture books about Elizabeti, a young Tanzanian girl.

Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes. Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface. Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here. Place unopened pouch inside you shirt, allow you body temperature to warm your MRE. I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it.

S. A. Bodeen
- May
- Water
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

S. A. Bodeen
- Writing

What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.

S. A. Bodeen
That night I dreamed of turduckens.

S. A. Bodeen
- Night
T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us. The sound was brutal. Final.

S. A. Bodeen
- World
- Door
I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world raking leaves for his kids to jump in, so that they perished in one loud, bright instant, giggles still bubbling up from their bellies, never suspecting a thing. Yeah, well. Tough luck, rich boy.

S. A. Bodeen
- Up
- World
- Kids
Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

S. A. Bodeen
- Up
- Wish
- Hand
My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didn’t have slots for those.

S. A. Bodeen
- American
- Black
- Dad