Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Quotes

#1. You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself.

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#2. It was us, I thought. Jamie and me. We had fallen down a rabbit hole, fallen into Susan's house, and nothing made sense, not at all, not anymore.

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#3. I had so much. I felt so sad.

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#4. I didn't know what to do. Susan was temporary. My foot was permanent.

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#5. I wanted to say a lot of things, but, as usual, I didn't have the words for the thoughts inside my head.

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#6. Jamie sings like a squirrel.

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#7. After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.

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#8. And even if it felt like Mam hated me, she had to love me, didn't she? She had to love me, because she was my mam, and Susan was just somebody who got stuck taking care of Jamie and me because of the war.

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#9. Sourpuss," she said, laughing. "Would it kill you to be grateful?" Maybe. Who knew?

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#10. Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk.

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#11. crippled. He'd been better as soon as his hooves were trimmed.

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#12. I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave?

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#13. What you know in your head and what you say out loud are not always the same.

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#14. It had been awful, but I hadn't quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won.

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#15. After that, with help from Jamie, I left Susan little notes every day. Susan is a big frog. (That one made Jamie giggle.)

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#16. Maggie ignored this. "I'll be glad to come to the party. Home's dreadful, you can't imagine. I've never liked school, but now home's worse. Mum's in a funk all the time." Every

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#17. But what do I do with them?" Miss Smith said "I've never been around children." "Feed them, bathe them, make sure they get plenty of sleep," the doctor said. "They're no more diffi cult than puppies, really." He grinned

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#18. We emerged onto the ruined street, where gaps showed in the rows of buildings like missing teeth

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