The Warden's Daughter Quotes

“There was a sense that things - words, feelings, laughs - were forever brawling inside her to be the first one out. Now, beside me, I sensed... emptiness. Emptiness in such a person is not nothing, is not small. It is enormous." -Cammie”
― Jerry Spinelli, The Warden's Daughter

“When you're inside your own story, you don't see things like a reader. You don't see your life in tidy paragraphs and chapters.”
― Jerry Spinelli, The Warden's Daughter

“Do not allow your future to be plundered by the past—neither the bad nor even the good of it.”
― Jerry Spinelli, The Warden's Daughter

“There was no glow I could not darken, no sweet I could not sour.”
― Jerry Spinelli, The Warden's Daughter

“Emptiness in such a person is not nothing, is not small. It is enormous.”
― Jerry Spinelli, The Warden's Daughter

“was revolted and spellbound at the same time. Movies didn’t get much better than that.”
― Jerry Spinelli, The Warden's Daughter