“Every decision I make is determined solely by the spark and limitations of my own perspective” — Christina Baker Kline Decision making Copy Share Image
“It’s brave to resist the pull of the familiar. To be selfish about your own needs. I wrestle with that every day.” — Christina Baker Kline Brave Copy Share Image
“When I shut my eyes in the warm bath, I feel as if I’m floating inside a cloud.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Mamey said that in her day a woman who had not married by the age of thirty was called a thornback, named… — Christina Baker Kline Old maids Copy Share Image
“This is our privy. Don’t ever let Mrs. Byrne catch you using the one in the house.” She pronounces catch “kitch.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Out of the four large windows facing the water she can see the sine curve of the coastline, the serrated firs in… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost… — Christina Baker Kline Aging Copy Share Image
“Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago?” — Christina Baker Kline Fitness Copy Share Image
“belting out the Irish national anthem—“We’re children of a fighting race, / That never yet has known disgrace, / And as we… — Christina Baker Kline Children Copy Share Image
“Richard knows a bar that's open until two and they go off in search of it, the two girls tottering on their… — Christina Baker Kline Girls Copy Share Image
“When you live on a farm, everyone is uncomfortable much of the time. Too cold, too warm, dirty, bone tired, banged up,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“My hands are clammy. It’s a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we’re walking into. The last time I felt this… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Well,” she says, “I’m a Penobscot Indian on my father’s side. When I was young, we lived on a reservation near Old… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“ORPHAN TRAIN is a specifically American story of mobility and rootlessness, highlighting a little-known but historically significant moment in our country’s past.… — Christina Baker Kline Orphan Copy Share Image
“We don't talk about the danger -- but what I imagine is a cartoon version, bullets flying and each boy a super… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Maybe it doesn’t matter how much gets done. Maybe the value is in the process—in touching each item, in naming and identifying,… — Christina Baker Kline Children Copy Share Image
“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then… — Christina Baker Kline Allegory Copy Share Image
“There’s sugar beets and sweet corn and green peas. And those low buildings way over there? Turkey farms. Minnesota is the biggest… — Christina Baker Kline Sweet corn Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Byrne fixes me with a steady eye, and my voice falters. “School has been in session for more than a month,”… — Christina Baker Kline Fourth grade Copy Share Image
“MOLLY’S OWN CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE SCANT AND PARTIAL. SHE remembers that the TV in the living room seemed to be on all… — Christina Baker Kline Childhood memories Copy Share Image
“There she is, that girl, on a planet of grass. Her wants are simple: to tilt her face to the sun and… — Christina Baker Kline Broken dreams Copy Share Image
“I’m an Indian.” She’s never told anyone this except Jack. To Tyler she knows she’s just . . . Goth, if he… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Feeling around in the bag, he said, “Aw, shit. I meant to get you a chain to clip these on.” He patted… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Hang on.” Molly shrugs off her army jacket and hangs it on the black iron coatrack in the corner. “What about that… — Christina Baker Kline Cup of tea Copy Share Image
“The landlord called our new home a railroad apartment: each room leading to the next, like railway cars.” — Christina Baker Kline Landlord Copy Share Image
“How strange, I think—that I am in a place my parents have never been and will never see. How strange that I… — Christina Baker Kline Parenting Copy Share Image
“Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.” “Actually,” — Christina Baker Kline Character Copy Share Image
“Portage.” Vivian wrinkles her nose. “It sounds like—oh, I don’t know—a pie made of sausage.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I think of what Mamey told me long ago: there are many ways to love and be loved. Too bad it's taken… — Christina Baker Kline Long ago Copy Share Image
“What do you choose to take with you? What did you leave behind? What insights did you gain?” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be… — Christina Baker Kline Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Maisie sensed it first. She wouldn’t stop crying. Since she was a month old, when our mother got sick,” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“(How quickly, with a slight twist in perception, do people’s strengths become flaws!)” — Christina Baker Kline Strength Copy Share Image
“There’s an indoor toilet, he informs us (though, as we soon find out, this “toilet” is a terrifying open hole above the… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I think she'd prefer pancakes. Do you think she'd like blueberry pancakes? Who doesn't like blueberry pancakes?” — Christina Baker Kline Food Copy Share Image
“It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.” — Christina Baker Kline Caring Copy Share Image
“Do our natures dictate the choices we make, I wonder, or do we choose to live a certain way because of circumstances… — Christina Baker Kline Choice Copy Share Image
“I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it… — Christina Baker Kline Comfort Copy Share Image
Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear. — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
