38 Quotes by Lauren Wolk

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

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

To listen to the whisper in the back of my mind.

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

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.

It’s terrible to feel useless.

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

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

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.