Anne Nesbet > Quotes

“I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.”
― Anne Nesbet, The Cabinet of Earths

“But you don't have to fit in to be okay. Believe me! I am the not-fitting-in world expert. I have not fit in in maybe five different countries so far. I am homelandless. I even make mistakes when I speak Bulgarian. But it's not big deal, not really. It's not the end of the world, right? It's okay.”
― Anne Nesbet, The Cabinet of Earths

“A tangle, you know, is more powerful than a single thread alone.”
― Anne Nesbet, The Cabinet of Earths

“First of all, people are always pretending to be what they are,” said his father. “That’s basically a philosophical question. Part of being something is pretending to be it.”
― Anne Nesbet, Cloud and Wallfish

“It turns out that home is not mostly a place. Home is someone putting her arms around you and saying the words your heart longs to hear: always and everywhere.”
― Anne Nesbet, Cloud and Wallfish

“Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce.”
― Anne Nesbet, The Cabinet of Earths

“Nothing but magic is really like magic, when it comes right down to it.”
― Anne Nesbet, The Cabinet of Earths

“Truth and fiction are tangled together in everything human beings do and in every story they tell. Whenever a book claims to be telling the truth, it is wise (as Noah’s mother says at one point) to keep asking questions.”
― Anne Nesbet, Cloud and Wallfish

“Noah had never had to wait in line to go into a grocery store,”
― Anne Nesbet, Cloud and Wallfish

“Names are like codes, yes? Like magic codes. They have everything that ever happened to you squeezed tightly inside them.”
― Anne Nesbet, Cloud and Wallfish

“I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.”
― Anne Nesbet, The Cabinet of Earths

“Cloud and Wallfish, Wallfish and Cloud.”
― Anne Nesbet, Cloud and Wallfish