← Contemporary

Sparrow

by Sarah Moon · 2017

Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather have stayed home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT Executive at a Brooklyn bank, reading, or watching the birds, than playing with… more

5 quotes ★ 4.10 (2,480) Contemporary

Quotes from the Book

I'm felling reckless like I'm flying up in the sky and never coming down...
14
I don’t want to leave. I don’t want to miss this. I don’t want to spend the last day hiding from the people who make my heart hurt with how much they give me.
2
I miss them. Miss isn't the right word. I miss them the way you miss water in a desert. I miss them the way children miss their parents, the way I miss Mrs. Wexler, the way I miss things being easy and clouds being below me. They way you miss things you don't know how to be without, but you know they're never coming back.
1
You might feel crazy at times;I think all human beings who are paying any kind of attention think that they must be crazy.
1
...her offer of friendship feels like a long-lost favorite sweater that's too small once you find it.

About Sarah Moon

We have collected 5 quotes from 1 book by Sarah Moon on BookQuoters.

More about the author →

About the book

Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather have stayed home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT Executive at a Brooklyn bank, reading, or watching the birds, than playing with other kids. And that's made school a lonely experience for her. It's made LIFE a lonely experience.

But when the one teacher who really understood her -- Mrs. Wexler, the school librarian, a woman who let her eat her lunch in the library office rather than hide in a bathroom stall, a woman who shared her passion for novels and knew just the ones she'd love -- is killed in a freak car accident, Sparrow's world unravels and she's found on the roof of her school in an apparent suicide attempt.

With the help of an insightful therapist, Sparrow finally reveals the truth of her inner life. And it's here that she discovers an outlet in Rock & Roll music...

Book details

First published
2017
Goodreads rating
4.10 (2k ratings)

Keep reading