Top 33 Cynthia Kadohata Quotes
#1. And yet we couldn't leave
it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.
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#2. Was I good or bad or mixed or what? And was the way I acted every day the real me, or was the real me somewhere so deep that I would never even know it?
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#3. It sounded so weird when people called shoyu "soy sauce." It made it sound like Tabasco or something instead of the clean and perfect thing that it was.
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#4. You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.
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#7. 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.
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#8. My sister and I practiced our howling and barking so we would be able to talk to our dogs if our mother ever let us get any.
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#9. I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.
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#10. The thing about luck is that it's like a fever. You can take fever meds and lie in bed and drink chicken broth and sleep seventeen hours in a row, but basically your fever will break when it wants to break.
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#11. Here at the sea
especially at the sea
I could hear my sister's voice in the waves: Kira-kira! Kira-kira!
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#12. Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing
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#13. Nothing wrong with gullible. How you be happy if not gullible?
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#14. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good. Those clouds made you dream big. Not big like you could make a lot of money or like you could have a good job. Bigger than those things. It was complicated. I mean, big like you were part of the sky, which also made you feel small.
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#15. Loneliness flooded his whole body like it was a physical sensation, not merely a feeling. Like it was a liquid that had replaced his blood and flowed inside his veins as his heart pumped it through.
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#16. You could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.
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#17. 'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.
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#19. Suddenly, Mr. Parker's shoulders drooped and he gave up, mumbling, Happy wife, happy life.
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#20. I almost never slept deeply anymore
as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.
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#21. In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.
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#22. It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
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#23. I felt like I didn't understand a single thing in the whole world. I didn't understand a single person. I didn't even understand myself.
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#24. I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.
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#25. I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.
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#26. Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I'd had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick.
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#27. Back in the car she said, "I think I die this year, maybe this month." "I die first," Jiichan replied. "Japanese women live to nineties." "I die first! You eat many mandarin orange as child. They make you live longer. Vitamin C." "You drink more green tea. You live longer.
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#28. For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.
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#30. My mother did not think mustaches were feminine. I don't know why.
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#31. I didn't care if I was a genius or if I was pretty or if I was good in sports. I just liked to listen to Lynn and to talk to Bera-Bera and to eat rice candies.
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#32. 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.
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#33. I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.
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