--- title: "1 Books Say Quotes By Kathe Koja" description: "1 Books Say quotes by Kathe Koja. Plus more from Kathe Koja and more Books Say sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/513/kathe-koja-24829_books_in-history-in-a-movie-in-a-book-you-can_2247096.jpg" --- > [“In history, in a movie, in a book, you can always tell who the heroes are; they're the ones rushing into a burning building, giving crucial testimony in the courtroom, refusing to step to the back of the bus. They're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/in-history-in-a-movie-in-a-book-you-can-always-tell-who-the-heroes/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/513/kathe-koja-24829_books_in-history-in-a-movie-in-a-book-you-can_2247096.jpg) ## More by Kathe Koja > [You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/you-see-that-hunger-inside-us-that-ambition-or-whatever-you-may/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“Tess felt for a moment that she might cry, coughed instead, a watery cough worse than a sob”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/tess-felt-for-a-moment-that-she-might-cry-coughed-instead-a-watery/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“leading her away from the worktable to sit on the unmade couchbed, lumpy pillows, blankets humped sad and cold.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/leading-her-away-from-the-worktable-to-sit-on-the-unmade-couchbed/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“As the invaders caught the villagers and tore into them, they made soothing, crooning noises that somehow drowned out the shrieking. They strangled the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/as-the-invaders-caught-the-villagers-and-tore-into-them-they-made/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/the-verge-he-likes-to-say-that-s-where-we-want-them-the-utter-utter/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [I'm just going to jump and say:hey Mom, Dad, I'm gay, What's for dessert?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/i-m-just-going-to-jump-and-say-hey-mom-dad-i-m-gay-what-s-for-dessert/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/the-stage-is-not-only-a-world-apart-it-is-a-myriad-of-worlds-and-in/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/if-there-is-any-god-in-this-world-he-lives-in-a-theatre/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/to-work-and-work-and-never-mind-why-if-you-kept-looking-for-the-why/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“smile again, something older, colder than reptilian, cold as the oldest brain of all speaking, short wordless bursts, the back of the back of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/smile-again-something-older-colder-than-reptilian-cold-as-the-oldest/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“Recalling those gone times, old memories lit by the fire of the new, I did not this time wonder how long it would last;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/recalling-those-gone-times-old-memories-lit-by-the-fire-of-the-new-i/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“She opened my closet door just the tiniest crack. So I could breathe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/she-opened-my-closet-door-just-the-tiniest-crack-so-i-could-breathe/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“..."I know it is a trick, I mean a dupe, but still - Do you ever make him talk to you, alone? the two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/i-know-it-is-a-trick-i-mean-a-dupe-but-still-do-you-ever-make-him/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [“You can know something and never think about it, if you’re any good at it. Me, now, I’ve been avoiding so much for so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/you-can-know-something-and-never-think-about-it-if-you-re-any-good-at/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) > [Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/even-an-empty-road-leads-somewhere-right/) [Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-say/kathe-koja/#itemlist", "name": "1 Books Say Quotes By Kathe Koja", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In history, in a movie, in a book, you can always tell who the heroes are; they're the ones rushing into a burning building, giving crucial testimony in the courtroom, refusing to step to the back of the bus. 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