Bitter Winds Quotes

“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Kay Bratt, Bitter Winds

“she”
― Kay Bratt, Bitter Winds

“A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day.” —Lao Tzu”
― Kay Bratt, Bitter Winds

“too quiet and Lily wasn’t crowding her like usual. Then she remembered. She sat up and put her feet on the cold floor beside the thin mattress in their room. She’d had to spend two days and three nights without her sister and still her Ye Ye had not been able to find a way to bring Lily home. She’d marched back to the hospital with him each time, pacing the lobby as he negotiated, and they hadn’t”
― Kay Bratt, Bitter Winds

“ ‘Scattered petals, withered leaves, a foolish man gives his heart to thee.’ ”
― Kay Bratt, Bitter Winds

“vendor as”
― Kay Bratt, Bitter Winds

“Lily shivered as she pulled her Ye Ye’s jacket tighter around the stiff clothes they’d made her put on. The sterile smell of the room mixed with what reeked of old urine was nauseating, and she filtered her breath through her mouth as she waited. She listened intently, hoping the sound of footsteps wouldn’t come. She’d been crouching on the ice-cold floor in the corner for hours, ever since that nasty excuse for a man had slammed the door on her. The turning of the lock and his threats to return later that night still rang in her ears. She felt a wave of revulsion remembering how he’d taunted her, coming close enough that she could smell his rancid breath as he hissed what he’d like to do to her.”
― Kay Bratt, Bitter Winds