Kendall Kulper · 384 pages
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“The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
“The ocean turns cold, dark, pressing around me, but the deeper I go the more the iron inside of me twists and pulls and I know that I’m tethered to the boat, that even now the men pull the rope tighter and drag me back to the surface.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
“I am swimming and it is just sunrise, the sky so gray as to be almost invisible. I rise to the surface to breathe and that’s when I see the dark shadow of a boat, gliding gently toward me in the water. Men ride in the boat, their faces grim and greedy and silent, and as I turn to watch them I feel a bite in my side, a piercing pain.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
“Cursed, I was cursed, and my mother said she’d given up magic for good, said it was a terrible thing, but she wasn’t above using it to keep me at her side, and she’s a hypocrite, a liar, a fraud and phony, and I hate her I hate her I hate her!”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
“I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
“I stretched out on the carpet, eyes glazed over, my heart whirring with frustration and fear, and as my mother’s curse slowly, firmly, pushed my eyelids closed, my body went still. But on the inside I was screaming.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
“Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
“This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: ‘This will be the night I escape!”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
“Panic reared up through me, hot and blazing and blurry, and that was it.”
― Kendall Kulper, quote from The Witch of Salt and Storm
Kendall Kulper
Born place: in Morristown, NJ, The United States
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“Ask Americans “How similar are you to others?” and on average they will answer “Not very.” Ask the same question in reverse—“How similar are others to you?”—and their judgment of similarity increases noticeably.
The two answers should be exactly the same because the questions are, in essence, identical, but we manage to delude ourselves, just as we all claim to be above average or wholly unsusceptible to social influence. Time and time again, each one of us assumes that he or she stands out. What is it that makes us believe we’re more unique than everyone else?”
― Sheena Iyengar, quote from The Art of Choosing
“The summer my cousins return from Nairobi, we sit in a circle by the oak tree in my aunt’s garden. They look older. Amel’s hardened nipples push through the paisley of her blouse, minarets calling men to worship.”
― Warsan Shire, quote from Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
“If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted or extroverted, wild or mellow.”
― Wendy Mogel, quote from The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
“I can't, guys," I said. "Tonight I'm making a cherry pie from scratch.”
― Holly Bourne, quote from Soulmates
“You have to know, from the moment I saw you outside Paradise High, I knew. I knew we were going to fall in love. And I've never regretted even a second of it. Not even now. I love you with all my heart. I always will. It was... it was all worth it. - Sarah Hart”
― Pittacus Lore, quote from The Fate of Ten
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