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her bags QUOTES

1 " Raffin appeared again, a floor above her, on the balconied passageway that ran past his workrooms. He leaned over the railing and called down to her. " Kat!" " What is it?" " You look lost . Have you forgotten the way to your rooms?" " I'm stalling." " How long will you be? I'd like to show you a couple of my new discoveries." " I've been told to make myself pretty for dinner." He grinned. " Well in that case, you'll be ages." His face dissolved into laughter, and she tore a button from one of her bags an hurled it at him. He squealed and dropped to the floor, and the button hit the wall right where he'd been standing. When he peeked back over the railing, she stood in the courtyard with her hands on her hips, grinning. " I missed on purpose," she said." Show off! Come if you have time." He waved, and turned into his rooms. "

2 " Katherine gave in to the wonder of the moment, imagining herself in the astronauts' place. What emotions welled up from the depths of their hearts as they regarded their watery blue home from the void of space? How did it feel to be separated by a nearly unimaginable gulf from the rest of humanity yet carry the hopes, dreams, and fears of their entire species there with them in their tiny, vulnerable craft? Most people she knew wouldn't have traded places with the astronauts for all of the gold in Fort Knox. The men existed all alone out their in the void of space, connected so tenuously to Earth, with the real possibility that something could go wrong. But given the chance to throw her lot in with the astronauts, Katherine Johnson would have packed her bags immediately. Even without the pressure of the space race, even without the mandate to beat the enemy. For Katherine Johnson, curiosity always bested fear. "

― , Hidden Figures

3 " When she found a place of her ownand packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear," He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she’s there all day. "

4 " It's because his wife left him. That's why he's acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to stay. On his knees! Why are men so embarrassing?

Bev "

― Louis Nowra , Summer Of The Aliens

5 " She is so white-hot furious she can barely see. She stokes the fire of her hatred, feeding it tidbits about bigoted Dina and spineless mushmouth Ralph, because she knows that just beyond the rage is a sorrow so enervating it could render her immobile. She needs to keep moving, flickering around the room. She needs o fill her bags and get the hell out of here. "

― Christina Baker Kline , Orphan Train