The Education of Dixie Dupree Quotes

“Often when we read, especially when we are younger, we are looking for a mirror, echoes of our voices, people who might look and sound like us.... Write for the twelve-year-old girl, who is looking at a mirror, at a window.

~Edwidge Danticat”
― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree

“Bold and brash, she was different.”
― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree

“But if even reading could get me in trouble if I wasn't careful.”
― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree

“wanting only to sleep. That was a blackness I could control.”
― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree

“Don't ever be afraid of writing the truth.”
― Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree