The Thing About Luck Quotes

“Sometime it very inconvenient to tell the truth.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing about Luck

“Was I good or bad or mixed or what? And was the way I acted every day the real me, or was the real me somewhere so deep that I would never even know it?”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“The thing about luck is that it's like a fever. You can take fever meds and lie in bed and drink chicken broth and sleep seventeen hours in a row, but basically your fever will break when it wants to break.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“Suddenly, Mr. Parker’s shoulders drooped and he gave up, mumbling, “Happy wife, happy life.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good. Those clouds made you dream big. Not big like you could make a lot of money or like you could have a good job. Bigger than those things. It was complicated. I mean, big like you were part of the sky, which also made you feel small.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“And yet we couldn't leave--it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“I felt like I didn't understand a single thing in the whole world. I didn't understand a single person. I didn't even understand myself.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“Nothing wrong with gullible. How you be happy if not gullible?”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“Back in the car she said, “I think I die this year, maybe this month.” “I die first,” Jiichan replied. “Japanese women live to nineties.” “I die first! You eat many mandarin orange as child. They make you live longer. Vitamin C.” “You drink more green tea. You live longer.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

“Jichan looked surprised. "Nothing wrong with gullible. How you be happy if not gullible?”
― Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck