Emma Hooper Quotes

#1. The students whipped their heads back to look at her; a blaspheming teacher was as exciting as a fight.

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#2. If we're doing we're living and if we're living we're winning, right?

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#3. People could say things about Owen. They could. But they don't. We don't. Words are strong. The strongest. Worse than bruises on

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#4. Go do whatever, wherever. Go do it alone, and now, because you want to and you're allowed to and you can.

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#5. Toxemia. A word that starts so harsh and ends so gently.

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#6. You can never stop being a mother. Never, never, never.

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#7. The radio was a beautiful thing. It was hodgepodge and patched up on the outside, but on the inside it was filled with voices, filled with people and music and ideas from away, from far away. Otto took a breath and turned it on.

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#8. It took them longer, a week or so, to notice the hole in their language that this new word had made. To grasp that there was no term for a parent without a child, a sister without a sister.

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#9. We're all scared most of the time. Life would be lifeless if we weren't. Be scared, and then jump into that fear. Again and again. Just remember to hold on to yourself while you do it.

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#10. The pain bursts through Etta like caffeine,

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#11. You told me, once, to just remember to breathe. As long as you can do that, you're doing something good.

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#12. I have made you some things, for when you get back. I understand now, all the baking you sent me, stale and crumbled in brown paper and rough twine. Now you're away and I am here. So I will make and make until you get back to remind you, and myself: there are reasons to come home.

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#13. Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you're making up. You shouldn't let that bother you.

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#14. I keep your photo in the pocket on the side without the gun. For balance.

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