The Portal Quotes

“Rose believed in cats-in feeding them and cuddling them. She did not find cats a nuisance in the least. She found them soft, quiet, gentle, and for the most part accepting. She loved the feeling when a cat plopped in her lap. She often wondered how they could be so comforting without ever saying a word. How they could seem to listen, to understand.”
― Kathryn Lasky, The Portal

“How can you ask? Would I not follow the only thing on this Earth that I love? You are all I have left. Of course, dear child. I'll go with you to the end of time, to the end of space, and place. I'd cross oceans and borders-borders between centuries and between Kentucky and Indiana or Ohio or Michigan.”
― Kathryn Lasky, The Portal

“She folded her hand around the locket. Around the secret that she might not believe.”
― Kathryn Lasky, The Portal

“I'll tell you one such moment," her Gran said with new energy. "Reading."
"Reading?"
"Yes. You try and try to figure out all those sqiggles on a page when you're a little tiny child. They mean nothing to you. You might know their names and know the sound each letter makes, but to slide them together into a meaningful word seems impossible. But then there is this moment. This bewitching moment when you see it. You break through the code that has been shutting you out and you land softly in this beautiful world of meaning and stories.”
― Kathryn Lasky, The Portal