The Calder Game Quotes

“What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game

“Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game

“Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused.
"And changed us all," Petra said softly.”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game

“The more you search the more you find.”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game

“not really a quote but here is is

The setting is the start.The story hangs from that hook,and the characters move slowly around one another.

Each piece has its own shape and size.

The characters think they see the wires that connect them.

But that isn't possible.

Or is it?

Who makes the rules?”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game

“What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three.”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game

“Well?” the man shouted. “With or against?” No one replied, and”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game