The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Quotes

“A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“I can't get rid of the sadness," Laronne said.
"Well," David said, "then we'll just keep it company.”
― Heidi Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“We live in the same house but we both feel lonely. We and lonely don't belong in the same sentence.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“We lie to ourselves in many ways; we write down only what we want to understand and what we want to see.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing," Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in the family.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“I think of how Grandma makes fun of love. And maybe that’s the key.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“I will not be sad. I will be okay. Those promises become my layers. The middle that no one will touch.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“In his eyes, I’m not the new girl. I’m not the color of my skin. I’m a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“That makes me think of how the other black girls in school think I want to be white. They call me an Oreo. I don’t want to be white. Sometimes I want to go back to being what I was. I want to be nothing.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“I think what a family is shouldn't be so hard to see. It should be the one thing people know just by looking at you.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see edges and lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma), begins. T”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“Math can explain the reason there’s a one out of four chance that I’d have blue eyes. But it doesn’t explain why me. And science or math can’t explain what makes one person lucky, or what makes a person lucky enough to survive.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“These white girls think all they need is love.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“. . . Aunt Loretta doesn't look like herself, but she doesn't look broken.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“understand”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“A ghetto has tall buildings and empty lots, trash all over the street and city noise. Here the houses are two stories; the houses have trees in front and everyone has a yard. I always told Tracy she was wrong, but now I think Tracy was right. The ghetto looks different in different places, but if you live there, it makes you feel the same.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“She has soft hands, and she smells like lavender.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“her voice is honey.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“God stands to the side wondering why we keep asking for wishes to come true from empty chairs.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“We live in the same house but we both feel lonely. We and lonely don’t belong in the same sentence.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see edges and lines where smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky