Little Wonder Quotes

“People were made to survive hardship, because without tasting the pain of living, they would never taste the sweetness of being alive.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“He hadn’t come from nothing. He had come from devotion and sacrifice and persistence and strength. He stood here because Mama had walked there and there and there.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“You know”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“it was classical music”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“Asking for help would be like jumping into the lake—one instant that stole her breath”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“He moved through life without laughing too loudly or speaking too boldly or wishing too freely or fervently.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“You must create the illusion of smoothness. An illusion, River, because this is the tragedy of the piano. Once a note is played, it is already diminishing. Like me, like you.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“Song knew that he hadn't changed all at once, in a single bounding leap. The process would've been more agonizing than that, and equally miraculous—a hungry writhing, old skins splitting apart to make room for new ones.
Each year was actually a new person, and the five years she had missed were five people she would always love and five people she would never meet.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“Sometimes, the smallest pieces were the most critical. He felt a little older, knowing that. The Arabesque was his Ma's favorite song, Small pieces, small moments-they bore weight. You could hinge a life, as Mama had, on moments like that.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“That was the reason so many pieces of music began in one key and wandered to other keys, strange and distant places, and returned to the original key in the end. Then you could feel it, and only then could you understand: You had to journey forth to come home.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“Four years ago”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“food?”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“Her laugh was like a dragonfly’s wing, vanishing in the sunlight. Lighting on a final moment of peace, a trembling green blade of time, they simply existed beside each other, in a way they hadn’t since the very beginning.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder

“That was the hollowness chewing at him, reminding him that people weren’t birds. They weren’t made to be free of all burdens. They claimed their place in the world with the weight of their bones, which kept them from becoming ever more lost.”
― Sophie Chen Keller, Little Wonder