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Chains (Seeds of America, #1) QUOTES

Chains (Seeds of America, #1) QUOTES

1 " She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

2 " I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

3 " Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

4 " The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. That's when they can hear us true. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

5 " A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

6 " Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

7 " This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

8 " Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

9 " It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

10 " Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

11 " It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

12 " Flames curled out of all the windows next door. The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire. Every building in sight was burning. The air was filled with crackling and popping sounds, with shrieks and screams coming from the street below. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

13 " If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

14 " It would have eased her mind if I thanked her for wanting to buy me away from Madam. I tried to be grateful but could not. A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

15 " The world turns upside down every day. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

16 " This is not our fight,' the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

17 " fortifications. "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

18 " too large,” the mayor said. “If it breaks free of its chains, "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

19 " I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. Waiting and waiting and waiting . . . "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)

20 " How could men who liked cats be bad? "

― Laurie Halse Anderson , Chains (Seeds of America, #1)