The Year the Swallows Came Early Quotes

“People are just who they are.”
― Kathryn Fitzmaurice, The Year the Swallows Came Early

“I had plenty of time to wait for her to tell me what was going on. But waiting is the hardest thing anyone ever has to do. You think you can just sit and let time go by. Well, no. Because that is exactly when time does not go by...After forever, I saw her coming.”
― Kathryn Fitzmaurice, The Year the Swallows Came Early

“You gotta forgive boy," he told him, "otherwise you keep that with you, like one of those houses they put sandbags around to keep the floodwaters out. Nothin' comes in, but nothin' goes out either."..."You don't wanna be stuck," Mr. Tom said. "It's only a matter of pride.”
― Kathryn Fitzmaurice, The Year the Swallows Came Early

“The swallows flew there each spring and made little mud nests to raise their babies in after they hatched. People say there used to be so many birds in the sky, it became dark while they flew over the streets to their destination. If you didn't look up, you might think it was an eclipse..."Frankie why do you love those birds so much?" Luis would ask him each year when they returned. And Frankie would always say the same thing: "Because I can count on them.”
― Kathryn Fitzmaurice, The Year the Swallows Came Early