Maizon at Blue Hill Quotes

“I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Maizon at Blue Hill

“That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Maizon at Blue Hill

“Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Maizon at Blue Hill