Top 39 Otsuka Quotes
#2. I find my own happiness in life...other people are not necessary.
Natalie De Clare
#3. It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.
Steve Krug
#4. We praised them when they were kind to others but told them not to expect to be rewarded for their good deeds. We scolded them whenever they tried to talk back. We taught them never to accept a handout. We taught them never to brag. We taught them everything we knew.
Julie Otsuka
#5. BEYOND THE FARM, they'd heard, there were strange pale children who grew up entirely indoors and knew nothing of the fields and streams. Some of these children, they'd heard, had never even seen a tree.
Julie Otsuka
#6. But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red flower after another out into the late afternoon light.
Julie Otsuka
#7. Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty? Did it fail to please in some way? Worse yet, did it offend? IN
Julie Otsuka
#10. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.
Julie Otsuka
#11. But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#12. I missed you, Lazarus. More than I missed the sunlight, even.
Erika Johansen
#13. Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.
Julie Otsuka
#14. Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?
Julie Otsuka
#15. Not once did we ever have the money to buy them a single toy. AND
Julie Otsuka
#16. A girl on North Fremont is discouraged by the postman, who tells her that only a traitor would dare exchange letters with the Japanese. NEW
Julie Otsuka
#17. And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.
Julie Otsuka
#18. And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
#19. They learned that they should always call the restaurant first. Do you serve Japanese?
Julie Otsuka
#20. They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan. STILL
Julie Otsuka
#21. I hope to repair certain important connections burned through by artificial speed, by inattentiveness. I walk, as everyone does, to see what lies ahead. I walk to remember.
Paul Salopek
#23. It is sometimes better to be lucky than to be smart; only luck can save us from the stupidity our wisdom can come up with.
Ozren Kebo
#24. Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.
Julie Otsuka
#26. A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.
Julie Otsuka
#27. There was a man of the cloth - Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church - who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There was a man in a shiny brown suit - fry cook Kanda of Yabu Noodle - who left urging Reverend Shibata to give it a rest.
Julie Otsuka
#29. Many of us had lost everything and left saying nothing at all. All of us left wearing white numbered identification tags tied to our collars and lapels.
Julie Otsuka
#30. He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, And that was just my hand, love.
Michelle M. Pillow
#31. I guess I take a lot of pride in that no matter what type of car we drive, we're always competitive in it. That's something I've taken a lot of pride in my whole life.
Tony Stewart
#33. I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.
James Blunt
#34. Surely there must be something they had said, or done, surely there must be some mistake they had made, surely they must be guilty of something, some obscure crime, perhaps, of which they were not even aware.
Julie Otsuka
#35. Don't touch me," said the girl. "I want to be sick by myself."
"That's impossible," said her mother. She continued to rub her back and the girl did not push her away
Julie Otsuka
#36. Married couples resemble
a pair of scissors,
often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them
Sydney Smith
#37. One must not get too attached to the things of this world. AS
Julie Otsuka
#38. Etsuko was given the name Esther by her teacher, Mr. Slater, on her first day of school. "It's his mother's name," she explained. To which we replied, "So is yours.
Julie Otsuka
#39. There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do you affix a value to something that only has value because a certain number of people agree to believe in that value?
John Currin
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