Beth > Beth's Quotes

“I lay back down and looked up at the rising crescent moon. I could hardly bring myself to think about it, but hope rose up inside me too. I wanted to believe it, for Sook-dii and for me. I wanted to believe there really was a way I could get us both back home again.”
― Gill Lewis, Moon Bear

“We sat together for some time looking across the mountains. When we stood up to leave, I asked her what lay beyond the horizon, and she said to me, ‘That is for us to imagine, to walk toward there holding the dream of what we hope to see, and not turn, however dark the path'.”
― Gill Lewis, Moon Bear

“But as Raymie stood in Ida Nee’s backyard, next to Louisiana and Beverly, it did not feel like her soul was shriveling at all.
It felt more like it was filling up - becoming larger, brighter, more certain.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

“As soon as Beverly said the words, Raymie knew that they were true. Louisiana’s singing would win any contest. And Raymie wanted Louisiana to win. She wanted her to become Little Miss Central Florida Tire.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

“It was the strangest things, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

“...you never know what's going to happen next. It keeps you on your toes. That's what Granny says. And it's important to be on your toes because you just never know what might happen next in this world.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

“Some of the best talks I have ever had started with someone asking "This might seem rude, but can I ask about your face/nose/scars/bumps?" Wherever those conversations ended up, they started as honest exchanges. Acknowledging someone's differences can be about saying you're not scared to talk to someone about the things that make them who they are.”
― Robert Hoge, Ugly

“Humans are like social Legos. We connect together with families. We build lives with friends. On our own, we're just one piece. When we come together in groups, we make amazing things. Our admission ticket into these groups is not our thoughts or our feelings. Our faces are our tickets. Our faces lets us look out and know others and let them know us.”
― Robert Hoge, Ugly

“My own children grew up with a Newfoundland dog named TOsh. It is true that Newfoundlands smell of the sea. They also smell of slobber, dog food, and whatever they have rolled in most recently.”
― Lois Lowry, Looking Back: A Book of Memories

“The man walked off into the crowd, and before I knew it, he’d disappeared. There I was with my suitcase, in the middle of the Istanbul Airport. Alone. I didn’t even realize I was crying until I saw the tears hitman shoes. Outside was dark. Night. I was nine years old and by myself in a foreign land. I didn’t even speak the language.

Quite simply, I was terrified.”
― Abbas Kazerooni, On Two Feet and Wings

“A twelfth-century samurai’s main weapon was his bow, but his sword offered a last line of defense if he ran out of arrows or was knocked off his horse. Yet even as a backup weapon the sword carried a symbolic weight that the bow did not. Weapons like bows and spears were also used for hunting. The sword had a singular purpose: to end human life.”
― Pamela S. Turner, Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak