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Three Keys

Kelly Yang

Top 10 Best Quotes

“But you can't give up on people. It's one of the three keys of friendship. You gotta listen, you gotta care, and most importantly, you gotta keep trying.”

“The pain broke my heart into a thousand pieces.”

“Race might be a social construct, but racism’s as real as the clouds,” he said, pointing at the sky. “You can see it, and you can feel it when it pours.”

“It’s like being a pencil, when everyone else is a pen,” she finally said. “You worry you can be erased anytime.”

“think an accent is like your very own unique signature of all the places you’ve been. Like stamps in a passport. It has nothing to do with where you’re going.”

“No way am I going to let it go to greedy Mr. Delaney and his stale cookies.”

“I have fear every day...But let me tell you something about fear: If you don't control it, it controls you.”

“Here we treat everyone like family,” I said. “No matter who you are and where you came from. That’s what makes it special to me.”

“And by the way, your cookies are stale.”

“America is a nation of immigrants. Our founders were immigrants. They worked hard to create a country that would welcome everyone.”

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Book Keywords:

caring, empathy, friendship, suffering, sadness, relationships, loyalty

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