“I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it… — Christina Baker Kline Comfort Copy Share Image
“Do our natures dictate the choices we make, I wonder, or do we choose to live a certain way because of circumstances… — Christina Baker Kline Choice Copy Share Image
“It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.” — Christina Baker Kline Caring Copy Share Image
“A store-bought trinket with no history, no story. I knew, deep down, when he gave it to me that he didn't understand… — Christina Baker Kline History Copy Share Image
Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear. — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Maybe, I think, someone here will want me. Maybe I’ll have a life I’ve never dared to imagine, in a bright, snug… — Christina Baker Kline Life Copy Share Image
“She learned about Indian words that have been incorporated into American English, like moose and pecan and squash, and Penobscot words like… — Christina Baker Kline American english Copy Share Image
“The questions on the assignment sheet are: What did you choose to bring with you to the next place? What did you… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. The rice is nutty and brown.… — Christina Baker Kline Gardening Copy Share Image
“Turtles carry their homes on their backs.” Running her finger over the tattoo, she tells him what her dad told her: “They’re… — Christina Baker Kline Strength and perseverance Copy Share Image
“When she finally stopped, I was only relieved, not understanding that Maisie was like a canary in a mine, warning us of… — Christina Baker Kline Heart Copy Share Image
“He tells me about his family—how there was some kind of dispute, and his brother killed his father when Mr. Grote was… — Christina Baker Kline Honest truth Copy Share Image
“Let’s make a promise,” he says. “To find each other.” “How can we? We’ll probably end up in different places.” “I know.”… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb…The expression… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“So here’s the dealio; I was trying to think of what I could get for your birthday that would mean something, not… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Options. She can sleep with the door open, wander around freely, come and go without someone watching her every move. She hadn’t… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Have you met Terry? The housekeeper?” Molly nods. “Actually, she’s Jack’s mother.” Dina perks up. “Wait a minute. Terry Gallant? I went… — Christina Baker Kline High school Copy Share Image
“about Minnesota he tells me all about it—how it became a state just over seventy years ago and is now the twelfth… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“SEVERAL MINUTES LATER, MR. BYRNE PULLS INTO THE DRIVEWAY of a modest beige stucco house with brown trim. As soon as he… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Despite the landlord’s disapproval, the sweltering heat, the gloomy rooms, and the cacophony of strange noises, so unfamiliar to my country ears,… — Christina Baker Kline Hope Copy Share Image
“What I couldn’t see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go. Sometimes the answer… — Christina Baker Kline Forgetting Copy Share Image
“Mr. Kaminski pulled a chain hanging from the pressed-metal kitchen ceiling, and light seeped from a bulb, casting a wan glow over… — Christina Baker Kline Cold water Copy Share Image
“And I know, with the newfuond clarity of being in a relationship myself, that my own parents were never happy together, and… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“She made an Excel spreadsheet on her laptop that lays it all out. Jack would laugh if he knew, but she’s been… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“When Miss Larsen talks to me, she bends down and looks me in the eye. When she asks questions, she waits for… — Christina Baker Kline Reading Copy Share Image
“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 Memories Copy Share Image
“..As I watch her pine casket descend...I try to envision the reunion of a frail eighty year old woman with her decades… — Christina Baker Kline Marriage Copy Share Image
“Every Easter she and her mother planted those crocuses near the fence beside the driveway, and soon enough a whole cluster of… — Christina Baker Kline Crocuses Copy Share Image
“It was pouring earlier, great sheets of rain, and now the clouds outside the window are crystal tipped, like mountain peaks in… — Christina Baker Kline Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“You could be my daughter, you know,” Mr. Byrne tells me. “Your name—Dorothy . . . we always said we’d give to… — Christina Baker Kline Children Copy Share Image
“Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley. Our teacher made us memorize the words to “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and alone in the… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Lori says, “Look at this. Your SATs are in the 600s. And you have a 3.8 average this semester. That’s really good.”… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“When the breakfast dishes are cleared, she starts on the large midday meal: chicken pie or pot roast or fish stew; mashed… — Christina Baker Kline Food Copy Share Image
“the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store,… — Christina Baker Kline Footprints Copy Share Image
“In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and… — Christina Baker Kline Culture Copy Share Image
“At breakfast—lumpy oats with no sugar—when I ask how to get to school and what time I’m expected to be there, Mrs.… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Get your papers in order, with the right signatures and record keeping, and the charges will be dropped, money released, whatever. If… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Riddled his body with bullets”—my da talked like that. Mam was always shushing him, but he waved her off. “It’s important they… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
