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1 " Is this what the rest of my life is going to be like? Moments of happiness punctured by the memory of what happened, like a bomb which can detonate at any time. "
― Kelly Yang , Parachutes
2 " the worry that if he didn’t take every single thing, a part of him would be lost forever. "
― Kelly Yang , Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)
3 " ... a mistake isn't always a mistake. ... Sometimes a mistake is actually an opportunity, but we just can't see it right then and there. "
― Kelly Yang , Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
4 " But you can't give up on people. It's one of the three keys of friendship. You gotta listen, you gotta care, and most importantly, you gotta keep trying. "
5 " Sometimes terrible things happen, but there's nothing more terrible than not having anybody to tell it to. "
6 " It's going to be okay. I'll make friends, and if I don't, I'll borrow books from the library. "
7 " Do you ever get the feeling like everyone’s looking at you but no one actually sees you? "
8 " So what'd you write about?''I wrote about how last weekend my parents and I waited in line at the movies for an hour, and when we finally got up to the ticket booth lady, they were sold out! Isn't that sad?''That is super sad,' I said, wishing, hoping, one day that would be my super sad. "
9 " As she starts the car, I put my feet up on the dash. Two girls from opposite sides of the earth, emerging from the ashes, stronger. "
10 " Welcome to America! Where everyone walks around in gym clothes and nobody goes to the gym! "
11 " Tomorrow, she'll get up and say a bunch of woke words she doesn't believe, and everyone will clap and smile and feel good about themselves, while the world continues to spin in the sexist, racist, classist mess that it is. "
12 " Girl, justice is something Americans invented to sell movies "
13 " The pain broke my heart into a thousand pieces. "
14 " Race might be a social construct, but racism’s as real as the clouds,” he said, pointing at the sky. “You can see it, and you can feel it when it pours. "
15 " You know what you are in English? You’re a bicycle, and the other kids are cars. "
16 " Sometimes a mistake is actually an opportunity, but we just can't see it right then and there" -Dad "
17 " We’re immigrants,” she said. “Our lives are never fair. "
18 " It’s like being a pencil, when everyone else is a pen,” she finally said. “You worry you can be erased anytime. "
19 " We're all connected to each other. We all breathe the same air into our lungs. None of us are immune to each other's problems, that's why we have to care about each other. "
― Kelly Yang , New from Here
20 " Just because you have an important job doesn’t mean you’re better than everybody else. "
