“I'm just looking at you. Exactly as you are right now. And not because you'll change, though you will of course. Treasure or not. But because if I could have built a human being, I would have built you. Just… — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Pelham's face was old but she moved like someone younger, and when she smiled I could see that her teeth were still strong.… — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“Yes, but feeling hurt and being hurt aren't always the same thing" -Miss Maggie” — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“At which I felt hot and cold at the same time. Too big for my skin. Too small." -Crow” — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“I'm just looking at you. Exactly as you are right now. And not because you'll change, though you will of course. Treasure or not.… — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“People don't want much until they have plenty, and then they want more and more" -Osh” — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“I thought about how people seemed always to keep their distance. And how I always made sure to keep mine. The schoolmaster, Mr. Henderson,… — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“Don't you understand, Crow?" he said, his voice so sad, so tender, that I couldn't breathe. "You're the one worth finding.” — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind.… — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“But some people let fear set its hook in them, so it's hard to pull out" -Miss Maggie” — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't that be a good thing? Not to feel pain?" -Crow "There's more than one kind of pain...and if you don't feel it, you… — Lauren Wolk Copy Share Image
![“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his]…” quote by Lauren Wolk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/387/lauren-wolk-34546_burden-of-the-past_i-didn-t-tell-him-that-i-d-put-his-awful_1846420.jpg)
