203 Quotes by Lisa Wingate

For the hundreds who vanished and for the thousands who didn’t. May your stories not be forgotten. For those who help today’s orphans find forever homes. May you always know the value of your work and your love.

I hold Huckleberry Finn real tight against my chest and start across the yard. Now we can leave this place behind anytime we want. All we gotta do is join up with Huckleberry Finn. There’s room on his raft for all five of us, I’ll bet. Maybe we’ll find the Arcadia out there somewhere. Even though I have to head back to Mrs. Murphy’s house, it feels like a whole new place. Now it’s got a river in it. That.

And if you haven’t got a single book, the idea of putting your hand on one is like Christmas and a birthday rolled up together.

I realize it’s not the best timing-it’s only been a month, but life isn’t about waiting for perfect timing. If you’re not careful, life happens while your stuck in a holding pattern.

Things could be worse is wearing thin. I’m exhausted. I’m confused. I am effectively talking to the air.

Huh.” On occasion that’s all I can say to the facts we’ve uncovered during our journey through the Underground project. The truth is frequently horrific. “The things we find in history are hard to understand sometimes.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don’t. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

When you’re a kid in a tough family situation, you’re painfully vulnerable to trying to fill the void with peers.

Tough times make good people and bad people.