Christina Baker Kline

“In American History they’ve been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude. The teacher, Mr. Reed, said that in…

— Christina Baker Kline

“It had been two years since we left our home on the west coast of Ireland. Life was hard there, too; our…

— Christina Baker Kline

“I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live”

— 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

“Maisie sensed it first. She wouldn’t stop crying. Since she was a month old, when our mother got sick,”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Pushing the hair back from my face and tracing the line of my jaw with his finger, he says, “With you I’d…

— Christina Baker Kline

I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary.…

— Christina Baker Kline

“You can't find peace until you fin fall the pieces.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“you can’t find peace until you find all the pieces. She wants to help Vivian find some kind of peace, elusive and…

— Christina Baker Kline

“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

“Other resources I relied on during my orphan train research were the Children’s Aid Society; the New York Foundling (I attended their…

— Christina Baker Kline

“As with Dutchy and Carmine on the train, this little cluster of women has become a kind of family to me. Like…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.” Maybe so, I think. Maybe my…

— Christina Baker Kline

“...when she thought her heart might pulverize like a shell into sand, I will find a way to keep going, no matter…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Not exactly shy. I was—quiet.” “Circumspect,” Vivian says. “Watchful.” Molly turns these words over in her mind. Circumspect? Watchful? Is she?”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Only the good Lord knows what's going to happen, and He ain't telling.”

— Christina Baker Kline

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering…

— Christina Baker Kline

“She didn’t know that Indian women had more power and authority than white women, a fact detailed in captivity stories.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“In Bangor, she’d had no incentive to do homework—her foster parents were partiers, and she’d come home from school to find a…

— Christina Baker Kline

“The ‘c’ sounds like”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Other signs of the apocalypse proliferate. After a pop-up ad appears on her screen, Vivian announces that she plans to sign up…

— Christina Baker Kline

“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

“It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Maisie was eighteen months old, but her weight was like a bundle of rags. Only a few weeks after she was born,…

— Christina Baker Kline