Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train Quotes

I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.",

If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.