Jacqueline Kelly Quotes

#1. What could I say? ( ... ) That I wanted to scream at the unfairness of it all? ( ... ) Encouraging me the way he had, knowing that there was no new century for me, no new life for this girl.

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#2. It was interesting that such a slight frame could contain so large a person.

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#3. We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.

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#4. I had never seen a real live dead person.

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#5. It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.

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#6. Eww, he said. I almost said the same thing, but unlike my brother, I had been annealed in the furnace of Scientific Thought. Scientists do not say such things aloud (although we may think them from time to time).

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#7. How sad to be the last of your kind, flashing your signal in the dark, alone, to nothingness. But I was not alone, was I? I had learned that there were others of my kind out there.

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#8. By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

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#9. Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

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#10. The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak.

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#11. When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.

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#12. It was the first morning of the first day of the new century. Snow blanketed the ground. Anything was possible.

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#13. I had never classified myself with other girls. I was not of their species; I was different. I had never thought my future would be like theirs.

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#14. It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

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#15. It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.

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#16. But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.

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