- Heavy Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
- Entwined
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.
- Five
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.
- Karma
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- Nov 07, 2020