Over the Woodward Wall
A. Deborah Baker
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know.”
“Sometimes anger is a good, true thing, because the world is so often unfair, and unfairness deserves to be acknowledged. But all too often, anger is another feeling in its Sunday clothes, sadness or envy or--most dangerous of all--fear.”
“No one looks like a girl, or a boy, or an elm tree, or anything else. Someone either is or isn't a thing, and the world can put as many layers on top of the thing as it likes; won't change what's underneath.”
“It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,”
“Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not.”
“None of her seemed to be missing, but it was impossible to see every part of a person, wasn't it? People were like treasure chests, full of secrets that never saw the light of day.”
“Zib wasn’t sure what a heart was for, exactly: knew that grownups put a great deal of weight on whether or not she was listening to her heart over her head, knew that they were quite fond of telling her not to give it carelessly away. Even so, she couldn’t imagine a heart was meant to shatter, or that it was an event which should be treated quite so lightly.”
“This was a part of me and now it’s gone, and it’s never going to come back again, and I don’t know what it was before it left me; I can’t know, because once a thing is broken past repairing, it doesn’t return.”
“The very best monsters speak like kings and queens, eloquent and alluring, and the trick is learning not to listen. If you listen to those monsters, they’ll have your heart out before you realize how much danger you’re in.”
“Sometimes anger is a good, true thing, because the world is so often unfair, and unfairness deserves to be acknowledged. But all too often, anger is another feeling in its Sunday clothes, sadness or envy or—most dangerous of all—fear.”
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Book Keywords:
anger, cowards, acceptance, gender, ignored, knowledge, being-afraid, justification, identity, frightened, emotional-intelligence, power, learning, being-scared, girls, empowerment
