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“Some people have the kind of confidence that lets them get away with being clueless.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“A sound can move anything if it's strong enough.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“He keeps singing this song, and everything in the ocean swims by him, as if he’s not there. He thinks no one understands him. I want to let him know he’s wrong about that.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“Blue 55 didn’t have a pod of friends or a family who spoke his language. But he still sang. He was calling and calling, and no one heard him.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“Maybe finding your way sometimes mean you can't stay where you are.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“So many ways to fail, all right in front of me. But I had to try.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“If you don't know when you'll get to talk to someone like you again, you don't want your time together to end.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“Why should I stay in the same place just because I'd been there for so long?”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“I’d found him. He’d never know what he meant to me, but that was okay. I didn’t speak his language, and he didn’t need to be fixed. He was the whale who sang his own song.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“Mom, Everything’s okay. I’ll catch up on my work when I get back. Please don’t worry. I’m having a great time with Grandma. Yes, it’ll be a few days before we get back. Sorry for taking off like we did without telling you first. I guess it’s the kind of thing I’d do too, because it wasn’t Grandma’s idea. Please don’t be mad at her. Love, Iris”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“Sound traveled farther in water than in air, so a whale song could be heard from hundreds of miles away, maybe more.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“If you don’t know when you’ll get to talk to someone like you again, you don’t want your time together to end.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“Whenever I was pretty sure a radio was fixed, I liked to wait a minute before turning it on. It was like closing a really good book just before the final page to make it last.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“I thought about how whenever I was with another Deaf person, we’d take forever saying our goodbyes. It annoyed everyone else as they stood in the doorway waiting for us to finally say goodbye and mean it. We’d almost get there, then think of something else to tell each other. If you don’t know when you’ll get to talk to someone like you again, you don’t want your time together to end.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“A second of panic like they’re not sure what to do with me or like I might explode in front of them.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

“See, sometimes you have to get quiet and stop listening to all the noise. Then what's really important will stand out. Good rule for life, too.”
― Lynne Kelly, The Secret Language of Birds

“Some people will never understand it, but I'm okay now with not fitting in. If I don't fit in somewhere, it means that isn't the place for me.”
― Lynne Kelly, The Secret Language of Birds

“The best way to learn how something works is to take it apart and put it back together.”
― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

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― Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale