Lauren Wolk Quotes

#1. Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.

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#2. Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.

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#3. Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things" -Annabelle

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#4. All around us, birds woke up the sky.

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#5. Some of them would survive to become fruit as good as anything on earth. Others would wither on the branch, killed by frost, wasted.

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#6. If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?

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#7. And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.

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#8. We girls in the 4-H club had made a flag to hang in the church, adding a blue star every time someone from the township went off to fight. When one of them died, we changed the blue star to a gold one. Just two, so far, but I had been to their funerals, and I knew there was no "just" about it.

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#9. Don't you understand, Crow?" he said, his voice so sad, so tender, that I couldn't breathe. "You're the one worth finding.

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#10. school wouldn't help them fight the Germans.

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#11. Nothing less important in the eyes of God, Annabelle, than pretty.

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#12. The year I turned twelve, I learned that what I said and what I did mattered. So much, sometimes, that I wasn't sure I wanted such a burden. But I took it anyway, and I carried it as best I could.

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#13. We spent some time like that, me asking small questions, Toby giving me longer and longer answers, until we were simply talking, Toby asking me questions, too.

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#14. At times, I was so confused that I felt like the stem of a pinwheel surrounded by whir and clatter, but through that whole unsettling time I knew that it simply would not do to hide in the barn with a book and an apple and let events plunge forward without me.

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#15. I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.

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#16. But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.

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#17. But think about how it feels when your hands are so cold they go numb. How it's only when they start to thaw out that you realize how much they hurt.

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