Cynthia Kadohata famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I love writing about people on the road.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Writing #People
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Book #Writing #Years
if you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn't hate them after the way they treated you, you would end up hating yourself, and nothing would change that way, either. So it was no good to hate them, and it was no good not to hate them. So nothing changed.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Hate #White #People
Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Life #Watches #Looks
you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Light #Car #Rope
Here at the sea---especially at the sea---I could hear my sisterâ€™s voice in the waves: â€œKira-kira! Kira-kira!
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Sea #Voice #Kira
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.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Girl #Memories #Diaries
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

#Heart #Thinking #Sick
I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Tired #Names #Matter
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.
-- Cynthia Kadohata

#Life #Wind #Everyday

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