Losing Christina Collection Quotes

“Listen to the sea...it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“If I were a seagull
I wouldn't have to stick around
If people argued- I would fly off,
swerve, wheel, dip, scream.
a thousand wings of company if I have friends
two strong wings of my own
If I don't”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowned'.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“People could not accept the presence of Evil. They had to laugh, or shrug. Walk away, or look elsewhere.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“Perhaps nobody knows anybody..It was a terrifying thought: like "the alone". That you could know people well, and know them again the following year, and then know them more...and yet remain strangers forever.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“Perhaps nobody knows anybody.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“I must remember that. Things become what you expect them to become. But I am granite. Nothing can shatter me.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“You must love teaching', one mother said to Mr. Shevvington. 'Yes indeed. I think of each class as a zoo.' He laughed..'Twenty-six to a cage.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“I'm interesting, she thought. I'm unusual. But I'm not beautiful....”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“It wasn't that she stopped being nice; she stopped being anything”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection

“Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Losing Christina Collection