Blackbird Quotes

“I can say anything, but the things I want to say are trapped in that wide open space so I don’t say anything at all.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

“To live in this world
you must be able to do three things,
to love what is mortal:
to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it
and when the time comes let it go”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

“When you have a feeling about someone and you find out the feeling is true, its a good thing and a bad thing too. It's nice to know your gut is right, but it's terrible to know you're not wanted, especially when there's nowhere else to go”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

“It's a terrible thing to feel alone when you are with other people, when those other people are supposed to be your family even thought they aren't, not really. That kind of being alone makes you feel wrong inside your own body, like you bones don't fit under your skin, like something inside your stomach wants to get out and fly away.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

“All his genius and he’s wrong. I can stay mad forever.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found