Christina Baker Kline

“The house must be a sanctuary.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Babies pay no attention to the clock.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“It's really none of your business...”

— Christina Baker Kline

“The ‘c’ sounds like”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Upright and do right makes all right.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“low-hanging lobes.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“father’s drinking—did I mention that?”

— Christina Baker Kline

“neighborhood, the place I left each”

— Christina Baker Kline

“notice.” The false cheer in her voice is evidence of how”

— Christina Baker Kline

“I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“...tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable...”

— Christina Baker Kline

“...one who speaks my language without saying a word.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“as a week. She’s been spanked with a spatula, slapped across”

— Christina Baker Kline

“It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days.”

— Christina Baker Kline

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

— Christina Baker Kline

“that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Whether your journey is long or short, He will help you as long as you place your trust in Him.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose.”

— Christina Baker Kline

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who…

— Christina Baker Kline

“We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves…

— Christina Baker Kline

“No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn’t given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could…

— Christina Baker Kline

“All at once I am so tired of this-of the constant threat of humiliation and pain, the fear of exposure, of trying…

— Christina Baker Kline

“And though they were called savages, even a prominent English general, Philip Sheridan, had to admit, “We took away their country and…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they’ve accomplished something…

— Christina Baker Kline

“She copies vocabulary words down in a notebook because she likes the way they sound: Harridan. Pusillanimous. Talisman. Dowager. Enervating. Sycophantic . . .”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Mr. Grote doesn’t believe in government telling him what to do. Tell the truth, he doesn’t believe in government at all. He…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Vivian said she wanted to clean out her attic. But I think what she really wanted was to see what was in…

— Christina Baker Kline

“there were over thirty thousand Wabanakis living on the East Coast in 1600 and that 90 percent of them had died by…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Jack? Too young. Terry? She’d never agree to it. The social worker, Lori? Ick, no. So that leaves Vivian. Molly has gleaned…

— Christina Baker Kline

“After a few minutes, Mrs. Byrne puts down her fork and says, “Dorothy, it’s time to discuss the rules of the house.…

— Christina Baker Kline

“He tells me about his family—how there was some kind of dispute, and his brother killed his father when Mr. Grote was…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Let’s make a promise,” he says. “To find each other.” “How can we? We’ll probably end up in different places.” “I know.”…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Her grades have kind of shot up without anyone noticing. “I don’t really think I’m college material,” Molly says. “Well, apparently you…

— Christina Baker Kline

“When Vivian describes how it felt to be at the mercy of strangers, Molly nods. She knows full well what it’s like…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Options. She can sleep with the door open, wander around freely, come and go without someone watching her every move. She hadn’t…

— Christina Baker Kline

She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb…The expression…

— Christina Baker Kline