Loon Point Quotes

“It can’t be very satisfying . . . helping someone who’s cursing you out.” “Well”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“He looked up to see if she was still in the park. Wendell felt a crazy compulsion to do something—flag her down”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“But still”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“Instead”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“Sure it does. Some of us just need a nudge from the universe. I actually think we’re changing all the time. We’re changing and evolving”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“But as he mulled it over”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“Because she honestly didn’t think there were other kids like Lizzie. There was only Lizzie. There was Lizzie”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“Norry realized she felt much sadder about this than she had any reason to feel. Just then”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“Right now”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“Norry had operated on blind instinct”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“Norry washed Lizzie’s hair”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“Norry tightened her grip on her phone. She was angry. She didn’t get angry very often”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“It was then the truth dawned on him. His stuff. All his stuff—all the stuff in the guest room and the living room and the dining room and in front of the back door”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“People live in all kinds of ways,” her dad would have said. “But some of them are better than others,” Norry amended. And her dad wasn’t there to correct her.”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“She was glad she was going to school. They were learning about the Anishinaabe people”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point

“She spent a moment just feeling the edges of the paper and the shiny plastic cover. Sometimes she thought this was the best part of reading. The worst was when she turned the page and saw there weren’t any more.”
― Carrie Classon, Loon Point