“I am the only child in a room full of women and am immediately at ease.” — Christina Baker Kline Child Copy Share Image
You got to learn to take what people are willing to give. — Christina Baker Kline Education Copy Share Image
“Nothing encumbered movement more than fear, which was often the most difficult burden to surrender.” — Christina Baker Kline Fear 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
“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
I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other. — Christina Baker Kline Assumption Copy Share Image
“I did not love him the way I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“The brilliant blue of the morning sky has faded, as if left out too long in the sun.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Unwrapping the leftover currant bread at the Grotes’ that evening, I tell them about my party. Mr. Grote snorts. “How ridiculous, celebrating… — Christina Baker Kline Birth Copy Share Image
“I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same… — Christina Baker Kline Love Copy Share Image
“It was during this period that she would wake in the night and get out of bed to go to her parents’… — Christina Baker Kline Heart Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let… — Christina Baker Kline Certainty Copy Share Image
“I have seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I’m learning… — Christina Baker Kline Broken inside Copy Share Image
“On the evening of the third day, I can feel him looking at me. He has a funny expression on his face,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn’t given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could… — Christina Baker Kline Life Copy Share Image
“All at once I am so tired of this-of the constant threat of humiliation and pain, the fear of exposure, of trying… — Christina Baker Kline Fear Copy Share Image
“Only hours earlier, my da had come in from his job at the bar and changed his clothes, as he always did… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home. I've spent my life yearning toward… — Christina Baker Kline Life Copy Share Image
“Each moment of loss, she has come to believe, contains within it the possibility of a new life. When the unimaginable happens,… — Christina Baker Kline Certainty Copy Share Image
“She knows that she was named for Molly Molasses, a famous Penobscot Indian born the year before America declared its independence from… — Christina Baker Kline Freedom Copy Share Image
“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 Food Copy Share Image
“Dusk softens the sharp points of trees outside my window; the sky slowly darkens, then blackens around an orb of moon. Hours… — Christina Baker Kline Dusk Copy Share Image
“look at the painting again. Despite the obvious differences, this girl is deeply, achingly familiar. In her I see myself at twelve… — Christina Baker Kline Family Copy Share Image
“We mark the days by chores that need to be done, the way farm families have always done. Al feeds the hens… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“What she wants most—what she truly yearns for—is what any of us want: to be seen.” — Christina Baker Kline Desire Copy Share Image
“But finally we found the place—an Irish pub, as seedy as the roughest ones on the backstreets of Galway.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“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 Heaven Copy Share Image
“I am ninety-one years old, and almost everyone who was once in my life is now a ghost. Sometimes these” — Christina Baker Kline Ghost Copy Share Image
“It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.” — Christina Baker Kline Bittersweet Copy Share Image
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“My da used to say it’s good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what… — Christina Baker Kline Limits Copy Share Image
“I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“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 Peace Copy Share Image
“She says she can’t believe she raised a child who traveled all over the world but has been content ever since to… — Christina Baker Kline Child Copy Share Image
“My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like… — Christina Baker Kline Chance Copy Share Image
“that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and” — Christina Baker Kline Settlers Copy Share Image
“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.” — Christina Baker Kline Artist Copy Share Image
