Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse
Jane Yolen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Like the piano player, I have memory in my fingertips. I watch words spill out creating worlds, inventing colors, bridging generations.”
“You think you know this story. You do not.”
“Stories retold are stories remade.”
“Words shouldn’t be dirty or clean But definitely sweet, On the tongue, in the mind.”
“The Baba gives me paper, and a pen that sputters ink. Write, she says, tell the true Though you may have to lie to do it.”
“No one sees her of course. She doesn’t exist unless you count bad dreams. Yet still she flies,”
“You want to tell this story, perhaps now you will.”
“Somewhere becomes a nightmare. I knock on no doors, make no phone calls. Nowhere becomes my destination. You can find it on the blank spaces of any free map in any old store. Just turn a corner of your mind, and it’s there.”
“She’s gone on that long road into adulthood from which none of us returns.”
“I’ve many questions, but am not eager to know the Baba’s answers. They’ll be hard kernels between my teeth. Biting down becomes a question of physics, a reply only dentists can give.”
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Book Keywords:
stereotypes, assumptions, stories, baba-yaga, poetry
