Christina Baker Kline
Books by Christina Baker Kline
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Quotes by Christina Baker Kline
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.
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I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.
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My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.
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It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.
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Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.
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Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ...Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the end of the song most of us are crying. I am too, though I still don't know what those stars are meant to represent. My mistake, I suppose, is in thinking they should mean something.
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I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on. ,
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...
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My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.
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I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.
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Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.
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Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ...Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the end of the song most of us are crying. I am too, though I still don't know what those stars are meant to represent. My mistake, I suppose, is in thinking they should mean something.
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.
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I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on. ,
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It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.
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I have three sons, as different from each other as any three humans could be but connected by their shared love of Guitar Hero. I'm lucky to be married to a man I can call my soulmate without any irony whatsoever.
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I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.
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I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.
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You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.
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