7 Quotes by A. Deborah Baker

Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know.

Avery and Zib might have stayed where they were, watching the stranger dwindle in the distance. They might have chosen to run, to seek other ways of warming themselves, for they were both reasonably cautious children with no interest in breaking their parents' hearts. But they were cold, and they were wet, and the Up-and-Under had a way of wearing such caution away, a little bit at a time, replacing them with curiosity and the quiet conviction that sometimes, the right thing was to follow.

It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,

Sometimes anger is a good, true thing, because the world is so often unfair, and unfairness deserves to be acknowledged. But all too often, anger is another feeling in its Sunday clothes, sadness or envy or--most dangerous of all--fear.

No one looks like a girl, or a boy, or an elm tree, or anything else. Someone either is or isn't a thing, and the world can put as many layers on top of the thing as it likes; won't change what's underneath.

It's better to forget a home than to lose it,

Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not.