The Cross of Lead Quotes

“I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing…
How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.”
― Avi, Crispin : The Cross of Lead

“Do you ever smile, boy?" he demanded. "If you can't laugh and smile, life is worthless. Do you hear me?" he yelled. "It's NOTHING!”
― Avi, The Cross of Lead

“Lose your sorrows, and you'll find your freedom.
If you have to choose between alertness and worry, being alert will bring you more days of life.
Try to show less worry. The worse disguise is fear.”
― Avi, The Cross of Lead

“In the midst of life comes death.” How often did our village priest preach those words. Yet I have also heard that “in the midst of death comes life.” If this be a riddle, so was my life.”
― Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead

“I found it a marvel that I could see so much of the world, yet find it much the same.”
― Avi, The Cross of Lead

“ways,”
― Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead

“That the greater a man's ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.”
― Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead

“maiden, gracious and free
Vessel of the Trinity,
Who graciously listens unto me
As I greet Thee with my song
Though my feet unclean be
And my hopes remain unborn.”
― Avi, Crispin: Cross of Lead

“The sooner I learned, I told myself, the longer my life.”
― Avi, Crispin: Cross of Lead

“a clipping of the ear,”
― Avi, Crispin: Cross of Lead