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Room to Dream (Front Desk #3) QUOTES

Room to Dream (Front Desk #3) QUOTES

1 " Going to school in America is sort of like learning to swim … in the ocean. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

2 " You can’t win if you don’t play! "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

3 " You can’t win if you don’t play. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

4 " Friendship is kind of like a river -- there are ebbs and flows. Jus because you're in an ebb doesn't mean the whole river's dried up. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

5 " Labels were like soda cans -- they get thrown around a lot, but if you crush them with your feet, they don't take up any space at all. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

6 " But it’s always better to have a fishing rod than a bunch of fish, "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

7 " Diary of a Young American Girl! "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

8 " I started telling him about how when we first got to America, we had to live in Old Man Jimmy’s garage. Old Man Jimmy was an out-of-work truck driver who rented half his garage to us for $200 a month. I would go to sleep curled up next to his Dodge Charger, Shelby, and wake up every morning to the jingle of his keys. Even when we moved out, my parents’ jobs were barely enough to pay for a small one-bedroom apartment. That’s when we applied for a job working and living at the Calivista Motel. But of course the owner, Jason’s dad, turned out to be a real miser. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

9 " A biotech firm? "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

10 " Fan mail?? "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

11 " If school’s like the ocean, middle school is like the Mariana Trench, filled with stinging jellyfish. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

12 " The time will flash by like vroom. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

13 " My sentences were such potato chips compared to his literary souffles. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

14 " Some things were easier to say to four hundred thousand people than to just one. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

15 " That's a lot of butter," I said, trying to distract everyone. IT was true too: There were about thirty sticks, enough to make a croissant the size of a car. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

16 " You can't just bottle up the bad stuff and only tell people the good. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

17 " As a small business owner, I refuse to give up or to be intimidated. I think the only way to compete with big business is with big heart. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

18 " Sometimes a loss isn't really a loss. It's an opportunity. You just can't see it yet. "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

19 " Everyone respects white-people food! "

― Kelly Yang , Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)