Wendy Chin-Tanner > Quotes

“The warmth of their touch soothed him, both because the human contact felt good and because it meant they weren’t afraid.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“his brain could keep on buzzing with all his missed notes, missed words, missed chances,”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Change was, in a manner of speaking, the sole mainstay of his life. Laughing”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“had already taken away the life he’d known.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“the Big House loomed, a great, familiar shadow in the distance, feeling for the first time like a refuge from the night.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Life is filled with so much pain, we should take what small joys the gods see fit to give us.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“sheet music was a code telling your hands what to do, a language made of sounds, not”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Victor had never thought of himself as yellow before, but that was what his records said he was,”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“holding her hand made his body feel weightless.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“the Indians and the Chinese, we come from the same people. They walked over to America from Asia on a land bridge many thousands of years ago.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“to make a permanent record of them as if each one were a crime.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Sam seemed tired, too, too tired to notice that behind her closed eyes, she was, in fact, far, far, away.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“When he sat in front of the piano, nothing mattered to him more. It would never change, never leave, never reject or fail him, its eighty-eight keys keeping him anchored to the world.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“For most of his life, it had been useful for Victor to separate his mind from his body.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Epiphany at Carville, a feast day twelve days after Christmas. The”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“chance to try on what it was like to be different, to be bold and self-assured, unafraid of making a fool of himself.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“The Bible said leprosy came from sin. In China, he once saw a beggar”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“She had so many of these small, dear moments clinging to her”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“the moon was bloated in a field of stars”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Miracle of Carville.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“But clearly China and death weren’t the same at all.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Victor had never really had a circle of friends.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Number 29,” said Sister Laura, “the Chinese House. This”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“she would die of grief if she knew he had leprosy”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Death, unhappiness, suffering, they’re just numbers on the price tag of living.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Last I checked, I was in Louisiana, not China.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“her silver barrette flashed like a signal lamp, and Victor felt sure she was the most beautiful girl he’d ever seen. She must”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“Mains-en-griffes.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“potential for a whole new kind of hurt.”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos

“terrifying place where sick people were left to rot, out of sight, out of mind, and away from society for the rest of their miserable lives. Afterward,”
― Wendy Chin-Tanner, King of the Armadillos