Kay Honeyman Quotes

#1. Don't you have something teenagery to do -- rage against authority, roll your eyes, mooch off your parents?

Kay Honeyman

#2. I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.

Kay Honeyman

#3. I carried those more carefully, whispering them to myself, letting them sit on my tongue like candied ginger. They sounded like words used to cast a spell.

Kay Honeyman

#4. He did look at me, and it made my heart jump. 'No, you have become yourself. You... you are as captivating as the flame that dances in a fire. And just as destructive.

Kay Honeyman

#5. Had my father loved my mother? He never spoke of her. I always imagined a traditional marriage between them--one built with the strong bones of respect, but stripped of the soft skin of love.

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#6. Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.

Kay Honeyman

#7. I barely heard him over the singing in my heart.

Kay Honeyman