#ld

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#i #know #lot #now #probably

I was a full foot taller than any child my age. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#any #child #foot #full #i

Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#born #broadcasting #came #college #day

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#after #away #could #go #got

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#brutal #children #even #going #had

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#center #could #dive #down #fantasize

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#bed #church #dad #go #kids

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was! ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#brother #created #great #had #i

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#baby #because #child #close #go

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#could #draw #i #imagined #see