A Crooked Kind of Perfect Quotes

“I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes.
'But you kept on playing?' Dad said. His eyes got wide when he said it. I could tell he was proud.
'Everybody does,' I said. 'You can't just get up and walk away every time you mess up. You'd never get anywhere.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“Never trust an exclamation point.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“I have gone over to the dork side.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“Just keep playing.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“Am I a prodigy?" I ask.
Miss Person snorts. She pushed the cap back on her purple pen. 'You have some talent and you work hard. I'll take that over prodigy any day.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“We have 432 rolls of toilet paper because my dad went shopping by himself. Dad is not supposed to go shopping by himself,”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“u cant be brave without scared”
― Linda urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“the beauty of Golden Gloves is that most of the lessons are as applicable to the boardroom as they are to the boxing ring. Except for the ones about punching people.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“Horowitz was not about perfection. He was about joy and art and music and life. And those things have mistakes in them. "I make mistakes, too," I said. "And when you are as good as Horowitz," said my mom, "yours won't matter, either.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“Allegro, kids. Speed it up.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“It’s perfect,” I tell him. “It’s crooked.” “It’s a crooked kind of perfect,” I say.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

“Wheeler Diggs doesn’t have a best friend, either.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect