She tells Precious that she will be able to continue her schooling while she raises Abdul in a halfway house.
Once she put that headband on, I wanted to run into the movie, tell Precious she was beautiful, and then take her out of there.
But writing, too, means taking risks and having something to lose, and in this pat book, almost hysterical in its need to project a safe sunniness, Barrymore tells us precious little about who she really is or about how she got from there to here.
Just as school league tables tell us precious little about the effort teachers are putting in to lift the achievement of children from deprived backgrounds, so too race equality tables are more likely to reflect paper policies and "work in the community" than how many ethnic minorities are in their boardrooms.
Our sources tell us precious little beyond Jesus' birth, however, she is mentioned, along with the brothers, a few times in the gospels, but mostly in the gospel of John, which curiously omits any birth story for Jesus.
Eventually, all that was left was black sand and I told myself that precious flakes and nuggets would emerge any second as I gently washed it away.
I might be told of certain "precious" things that had been saved for me, things that had not been seen by anyone else.
"I grew up in a household where I was told just how precious our democracy was here and just how fortunate we are to have it," von Spakovsky said.
When my parents told me my precious kitty had to go, I went into negotiator mode and suggested we give Karen away instead.
Grief-stricken, Lu Ling recalls how Precious Auntie told her "I am your mother" over and over again in the language of shooting stars.
