“...one who speaks my language without saying a word.” — Christina Baker Kline Language Copy Share Image
“as a week. She’s been spanked with a spatula, slapped across” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.” — Christina Baker Kline Big city Copy Share Image
“I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“He frowns. “Sure is strange looking. Doubt I could sell it if I tried.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“for the first time since the fire, my worries are gone. I feel a joy so strong it’s almost painful—a knife’s edge… — Christina Baker Kline Fear 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The time wasted, the energy squandered on meaningless possessions, the compromises...” — Christina Baker Kline Negotiation Copy Share Image
“only link we had to our future was a name scrawled on a piece of paper my father tucked in his shirt… — Christina Baker Kline New york city Copy Share Image
“You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel. And the skeleton of a house can… — Christina Baker Kline Family 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Molly holds the coat up, inspecting it. It’s interesting, actually, sort of a military style with bold black buttons. The gray silk… — Christina Baker Kline Cursive Copy Share Image
“At the back of the yard, tufted with grass like sparse hair on a balding head, is a weathered gray shed with… — Christina Baker Kline Fanny Copy Share Image
“Miss Larsen’s eyes are glittering strangely, and a red rash has crept up her neck. “Did you hear the girl, Mr. Sorenson?”… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Carrying my boat between bodies of water? I’m not so good with metaphors, dear,” Vivian says. “What’s it supposed to mean?” “Well,”… — Christina Baker Kline 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
“She points at my necklace. “What is that?” I reach up and touch the small silver claddagh Celtic cross I have worn… — Christina Baker Kline Cross Copy Share Image
In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still… — Christina Baker Kline Ability 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 Ellis island Copy Share Image
“We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.” — Christina Baker Kline Language Copy Share Image
“The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“...life hinges on small moments and seemingly trivial decisions. ” — Christina Baker Kline Decision making Copy Share Image
“I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed.” — Christina Baker Kline Change Copy Share Image
“The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.” — Christina Baker Kline Acceptance Copy Share Image
