Feathers Quotes

The boy just looked up at all of them. Then he did something amazing. He took his hands out of his pocket and signed, No I'm not deaf. Then he looked over at me and smiled—like he'd known all alo...

After that, nobody asked that question anymore. But I had heard Mama and a neighbor talking about Trevor's daddy, how he was a white man who lived across the highway. (1.32)

Me and Samantha went back to first grade together. One day, I was just this little kid alone in the first grade, coming into class a month after everyone. For a whole month, I didn't have a single...

"I mean," she said, sitting back up and tucking the tissue all delicate-like into her bag, "he belongs where he belongs. If he ended up here, then that's where he belongs." (2.33)

Mama lost one baby before I was born. Her name was Lila and she died when she was a month old. Something about her lungs. Something about her blood. We don't talk about her much. But there are pict...

Trevor turned to the boy and whispered, "Don't no pale faces go to this school. You need to get your white butt back across the highway." (1.21)

But, to hear her tell it, you'd think she was still in some high and mighty private school—always finding some kind of way to drop it into a conversation, always wrinkling her nose at me like she...

"You'd think they'd assign him a partner or something," I said."Like who," Maribel said. "You?" "No! Like another boy or something. That doesn't even make sense, him sitting by himself like that. A...

As the months passed and he kept getting in trouble for hitting people, we figured out that he had a mean streak in him—one minute he'd be smiling, the next his blue eyes would get all small and...

The boy stared back at him—his face pale and calm and quiet. I had never seen such a calm look on a kid. Grown-ups could look that way sometimes, but not the kids I knew. The boy's eyes moved slo...