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Top 20 Cynthia Kadohata Quotes (2025 Update)

Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I’m writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.”

1. “For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I’m writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.”

— Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “The thing about luck is that it’s like a fever. You can take fever meds and lie in bed and drink chicken broth and sleep seventeen hours in a row, but basically your fever will break when it wants to break.”

2. “The thing about luck is that it’s like a fever. You can take fever meds and lie in bed and drink chicken broth and sleep seventeen hours in a row, but basically your fever will break when it wants to break.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I’d had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick.”

3. “Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I’d had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick.”

— Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “Nothing wrong with gullible. How you be happy if not gullible?”

4. “Nothing wrong with gullible. How you be happy if not gullible?”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.”

5. “I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good. Those clouds made you dream big. Not big like you could make a lot of money or like you could have a good job. Bigger than those things. It was complicated. I mean, big like you were part of the sky, which also made you feel small.”

6. “But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good. Those clouds made you dream big. Not big like you could make a lot of money or like you could have a good job. Bigger than those things. It was complicated. I mean, big like you were part of the sky, which also made you feel small.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “I watched a swatch of the sky turn red. The red spread like blood in the sea: red, red, red, and then less and less red, until there was only blue left. I squinted as the sun rose. I must have fallen asleep, because when I woke up, my father was carrying me into the house. Sam walked beside us carrying the lawn chair, which seemed almost as big as he was. Inside the living room my father laid me on my cot. “She’s gone,” he said.”

7. “I watched a swatch of the sky turn red. The red spread like blood in the sea: red, red, red, and then less and less red, until there was only blue left. I squinted as the sun rose. I must have fallen asleep, because when I woke up, my father was carrying me into the house. Sam walked beside us carrying the lawn chair, which seemed almost as big as he was. Inside the living room my father laid me on my cot. “She’s gone,” he said.”

— Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “The jungle changes a man.”

8. “The jungle changes a man.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “I was worried that her spirit was watching me every time I cried. I was worried that if she saw me crying, she would be very unhappy and maybe she wouldn’t be able to leave the earth the way she was supposed to. So even though I wanted her to keep watching me, I wished she would forget about me and never see my crying and never worry about me anymore, even if that meant I was now alone.”

9. “I was worried that her spirit was watching me every time I cried. I was worried that if she saw me crying, she would be very unhappy and maybe she wouldn’t be able to leave the earth the way she was supposed to. So even though I wanted her to keep watching me, I wished she would forget about me and never see my crying and never worry about me anymore, even if that meant I was now alone.”

— Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “And yet we couldn’t leave – it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.”

10. “And yet we couldn’t leave – it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.”

— Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing.”

11. “Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “I didn’t care if I was a genius or if I was pretty or if I was good in sports. I just liked to listen to Lynn and to talk to Bera-Bera and to eat rice candies.”

12. “I didn’t care if I was a genius or if I was pretty or if I was good in sports. I just liked to listen to Lynn and to talk to Bera-Bera and to eat rice candies.”

— Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “Here at the sea – especially at the sea – I could hear my sister’s voice in the waves: “Kira-kira! Kira-kira!”

13. “Here at the sea – especially at the sea – I could hear my sister’s voice in the waves: “Kira-kira! Kira-kira!”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “Was I good or bad or mixed or what? And was the way I acted every day the real me, or was the real me somewhere so deep that I would never even know it?”

14. “Was I good or bad or mixed or what? And was the way I acted every day the real me, or was the real me somewhere so deep that I would never even know it?”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “Back in the car she said, “I think I die this year, maybe this month.” “I die first,” Jiichan replied. “Japanese women live to nineties.” “I die first! You eat many mandarin orange as child. They make you live longer. Vitamin C.” “You drink more green tea. You live longer.”

15. “Back in the car she said, “I think I die this year, maybe this month.” “I die first,” Jiichan replied. “Japanese women live to nineties.” “I die first! You eat many mandarin orange as child. They make you live longer. Vitamin C.” “You drink more green tea. You live longer.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “Suddenly, Mr. Parker’s shoulders drooped and he gave up, mumbling, “Happy wife, happy life.”

16. “Suddenly, Mr. Parker’s shoulders drooped and he gave up, mumbling, “Happy wife, happy life.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “I love writing about people on the road.”

17. “I love writing about people on the road.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “My mother did not think mustaches were feminine. I don’t know why.”

18. “My mother did not think mustaches were feminine. I don’t know why.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.”

19. “It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “Maybe sometimes you just had to go out into the world and trust what would happen. You had to trust that there were good people in the world.”

20. “Maybe sometimes you just had to go out into the world and trust what would happen. You had to trust that there were good people in the world.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.”

21. “My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “I almost never slept deeply anymore – as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.”

22. “I almost never slept deeply anymore – as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.”

23. “The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.”

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Cynthia Kadohata Quote: “I felt like I didn’t understand a single thing in the whole world. I didn’t understand a single person. I didn’t even understand myself.”

24. “I felt like I didn’t understand a single thing in the whole world. I didn’t understand a single person. I didn’t even understand myself.”

— Cynthia Kadohata

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