Kendall > Kendall's Quotes

“Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.”
― Cynthia Lord, Rules

“Everyone is always learning something new," my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“Tears are for happiness.”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“I have been so busy asking for faith that I forgot to ask for patience.”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“Sometimes remembering means to live a moment in the past again, and in that way survive the present.”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

“The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

“Sometime it very inconvenient to tell the truth.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing about Luck

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Never a goodbye, always a see you later.”
― Marjorie Agosín

“I entered the City of Books, dark jewels hoarded in temples and cathedrals. In this city I found buried candelabra and stories waiting to be read during nights of sea and moon. I loved the City of Books where lost gazelles wandered in search of signs.”
― Marjorie Agosín, Cartographies: Meditations on Travel

“My father says that believing or not believing doesn't matter; what is important is speaking with God.”
― Marjorie Agosín, A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile

“I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“Life is short, have dessert first.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

“If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.”
― Wendy Mass, The Candymakers

“The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.”
― Wendy Mass, 11 Birthdays

“The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

“They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”
― Wendy Mass, A Mango-Shaped Space

“The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field”
― Wendy Mass, 13 Gifts

“Whereever you end up;" Jack whispered into my ear."I wish you clear skies. Always”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“You never know, life is short but it’s wide”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“We're made of good stuff, but you have to work to get it. Our good stuff is cased under hard shells that will cut your fingers and burn your hands if you try to break through them. Our good stuff is hidden under layers of guts and gross yellow goo that will make you say "yuck" the whole time your cleaning it away with a paper towel. And just when you think you have gotten all the bad stuff out of the way, there's more guts, more shells, and more goo. But we're made of really good stuff. If you work really, really hard.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time: A Moving Middle Grade Novel About Adoption, Trust, and Love That Multiplies for Children

“Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.”
― Cynthia Lord, Rules

“In life you have to laugh or you'll cry”
― Joan Bauer, Stand Tall

“Friendship is like boogie boarding. You have to learn when to hold on and when to let go.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

“You can either stay here while they throw shovelfuls of sand on you or just climb out. Your choice not theirs. Then I head toward the stairs, not even loking back at Brandy or Tressa. And it feels really good to step away from the shovels of sand they've been throwing on me for weeks and finally climb out of the hole.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain