Lisa Ann Sandell Quotes

• As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Life, Baggage, Helping

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Travel, Rain, Ambition

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• The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Tree, Brotherhood, Ghost

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• What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Men, Doe, Realms

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• I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Army, Hair, Voice

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for- loving the person because of all of those things... I know that now.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Caring, Thinking, Knowing

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• I've got this image in my head of how I want my life to look, and I have absolutely no idea how to get there. And I'm so scared that I'll make some wrong decision - just one - and everything will get messed up and go wrong -for good.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Ideas, Decision, Looks

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

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• Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Beautiful, Blue, Somewhere Else

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• The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Song, Loneliness, Loss

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Moon, Sparrows, Moments

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• Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Love Is, Mistress, Masters

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• My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Sparrows, Flicker

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• Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry will sing you songs, and your father will see his wife's beauty in you. Savor their love today. And it will never leave you.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Song, Brother, Children

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2008). “Song of the Sparrow”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

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• Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the emerald carpet, the warriors make war, and it is like a dance, almost beautiful, always macabre. The noise brings me back, the fearsome noise of swords striking swords, a metallic clanging that rings in my ears, echoing and echoing the fearsome din of men screaming and crying as they meet the sharp ends of blades.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Beautiful, War, Men

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• Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Sorrow, Doe, Looks

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2008). “Song of the Sparrow”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• Merry Christmas, I whisper to myself. Merry Christmas, Nate.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Healing, Merry Christmas, Merry

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2009). “A Map of the Known World”, p.125, Scholastic Inc.

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