The Year of the Book Quotes

“Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?"

"Peng you," I say.

"Peng you," she says, only instead of pung yo, it sounds like penguin. "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.”
― Andrea Cheng, The Year of the Book

“Simmons is looking at us so we have to stop whispering. I wonder if Laura means he breaks cups and plates. Why”
― Andrea Cheng, The Year of the Book

“way to school in the morning, there is a huge rainbow arching across the sky. I’ve seen little rainbows after it rains, but never one like this. And then I see that it is actually double. The second arch is faint but you can still see the colors. I hurry down the hill ahead of Ken. “I’ve seen plenty of rainbows in my life,” Ray says, “but I’d say this one is the most magnificent.”
― Andrea Cheng, The Year of the Book

“She looks at Laura. Their eyes meet.”
― Andrea Cheng, The Year of the Book