Top 35 Lauren Wolk Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.”

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2. “People don’t want much until they have plenty, and then they want more and more.”

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3. “In fact, I was glad to know something not everyone did: that there are better bonds than blood” -Crow.”

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4. “Nothing less important in the eyes of God, Annabelle, than pretty.”

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5. “It’s terrible to feel useless.”

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6. “Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things” -Annabelle.”

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7. “But think about how it feels when your hands are so cold they go numb. How it’s only when they start to thaw out that you realize how much they hurt.”

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8. “I’m just looking at you. Exactly as you are right now. And not because you’ll change, though you will of course. Treasure or not. But because if I could have built a human being, I would have built you. Just so” -Osh.”

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9. “If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?”

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10. “Don’t you understand, Crow?” he said, his voice so sad, so tender, that I couldn’t breathe. “You’re the one worth finding.”

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11. “But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.”

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12. “My name is Tobias Jordan. I am a carpenter from Maryland. And I did not push Betty down that well.”

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13. “Don’t you understand, Crow? You’re the one worth finding” -Osh.”

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14. “And that’s when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.”

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15. “The year I turned twelve, I learned that what I said and what I did mattered. So much, sometimes, that I wasn’t sure I wanted such a burden. But I took it anyway, and I carried it as best I could.”

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16. “Anyone who’s ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.”

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17. “At times, I was so confused that I felt like the stem of a pinwheel surrounded by whir and clatter, but through that whole unsettling time I knew that it simply would not do to hide in the barn with a book and an apple and let events plunge forward without me.”

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18. “He closed his eyes. After a moment, he said, “No, Crow. But I do think you should look in as much as you’re looking out.” I didn’t know what he meant. “I don’t know what you mean,” I said. Osh stopped to choose his words. “Sometimes,” he said slowly, “people know things. They don’t learn them. They don’t figure them out. They don’t discover them. They know them. And it doesn’t matter what anyone else has to say about it.”

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19. “And of course she said yes. No one liked an adventure more than Miss Maggie. As long as she could come home again afterward.”

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20. “We spent some time like that, me asking small questions, Toby giving me longer and longer answers, until we were simply talking, Toby asking me questions, too.”

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21. “I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.”

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22. “We girls in the 4-H club had made a flag to hang in the church, adding a blue star every time someone from the township went off to fight. When one of them died, we changed the blue star to a gold one. Just two, so far, but I had been to their funerals, and I knew there was no “just” about it.”

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23. “All around us, birds woke up the sky.”

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24. “To listen to the whisper in the back of my mind.”

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25. “Some of them would survive to become fruit as good as anything on earth. Others would wither on the branch, killed by frost, wasted.”

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26. “At which I felt hot and cold at the same time. Too big for my skin. Too small.” -Crow.”

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27. “Yes, but feeling hurt and being hurt aren’t always the same thing” -Miss Maggie.”

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28. “Mrs. Pelham’s face was old but she moved like someone younger, and when she smiled I could see that her teeth were still strong. I wondered what had mapped her face like that” -Crow.”

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29. “The things we need to learn to do, we learn to do by doing.”

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30. “But some people let fear set its hook in them, so it’s hard to pull out” -Miss Maggie.”

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31. “Blame comes from the Greek for “curse”. That’s the root of it. A curse against the sacred, which is what sisters are or should be to each other.”

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32. “Doing something is more right than doing nothing.”

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33. “Good manners and honesty. I liked those qualities in a person.”

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34. “You want to know?” Kate nodded again at the books on her desk, “Find out.”

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35. “We were sea clean and sun dried, the two of us, and fine that way.”

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