1. He heard the loud impact before he ever saw the result.

It had been so
loud that it had actually made him jump back in his seat. As soon as he
recovered from the surprise, he saw the crack in the windshield. It
seemed to be an analogy of the current condition of his life.

2. Balloons are pretty and come in different colors, different shapes,

different sizes, and they can even adjust sizes as needed. But don't make
them too big or they might just pop, and then bye-bye balloon. It'll be
gone and lost for the rest of mankind. They can serve a variety of
purposes, from decorating to water balloon wars. You just have to use
your head to think a little bit about what to do with them.

3. Love isn't always a ray of sunshine. That's what the older girls kept
telling her when she said she had found the perfect man. She had
thought this was simply bitter talk on their part since they had been
unable to find true love like hers. But now she had to face the fact that
they may have been right. Love may not always be a ray of sunshine.
That is unless they were referring to how the sun can burn.

4. There was only half a worm in the apple. At first, Judy didn't quite
comprehend what this meant. "Why would only half a worm be living in
an apple?" she wondered. And then it dawned on her. Judy quickly spit
out the bite she had just taken expecting to see the other half of the
worm. It ended up being much worse than that.

5. There was something in the tree. It was difficult to tell from the ground,
but Rachael could see movement. She squinted her eyes and peered in
the direction of the movement, trying to decipher exactly what she had
spied. The more she peered, however, the more she thought it might be a
 figment of her imagination. Nothing seemed to move until the moment
she began to take her eyes off the tree. Then in the corner of her eye, she
would see the movement again and begin the process of staring again.