Bird
Crystal Chan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“That's one of the things about adults: the most important rules to keep are the ones they never tell you and the ones they get the angriest about if you break.”
“If you give up too much of yourself, too fast, then someone can just up and take it away.”
“It's almost as if we're afraid of words. They hang in the air, unspoken, and then seeing that they're not going to be used, they shrivel and die.”
“Who were these people? Where was all this joy, and where does joy go when it leaves your family? Does it go into someone else's family, soak into the earth, or does it dissolve away like your breath in the winter? And if it doesn't leave like this, then why isn't there any left for me?”
“Most people can't see what's in front of them if they don't know what they're looking for. But once you know what you're looking for, you wonder how you didn't see it.”
“I realized that places in many ways are like people: they think about you when you're gone, wait for you to come back, and rejoice when you do.”
“I don't like crying in front of people because it shows them the holes that you have on the inside. I guess with all the crying I'd been doing lately, I had more holes than I thought.”
“Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.”
“It just made me wonder just how much we're all connected, how we touch each other without even knowing it. And when we're lucky, we do.”
“Sure am. I’m adopted. Raised by white people. It’s not as bad as it sounds.”
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Book Keywords:
joy, middle-grade, first-sentence, bird, grief
