In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Quotes

At the store a skinny man with a big red nose welcomed her with a smile. Encouraged, she opened her mouth wide to pronounce her first English words for an American. "Rukee Sike!"But instead of givi...

Before the altar, which was laden with offerings for the ancestors, Grandfather sat, telling stories to the very old and the very young. (1.81)

But I'm not an engine, she thought. Engines don't cry. Engines don't need friends to talk to, to play with, to share. Reaching out, she tried to pretend Fourth Cousin was there. (4.23)

"Exiled like a criminal to a distant land.""With no clan to nurture you. Surrounded by strangers." (1.71-72)

There was something more foreign about the principal than about any other foreigner she had seen so far. What was it? It was not the blue eyes. Many others had them too. It was not the high nose. A...

"In our national pastime, each player is a member of a team, but when he comes to bat, he stands alone. One man. Many opportunities. For no matter how far behind, how late in the game, he, by himse...

"Oh?" said the older girl. "You are always imagining things! Remember the time you told everyone there was a goldfish swimming in the bamboo trees? It was only a fallen kite. Remember the time you...

With no one to talk to, she mumbled to herself, "Buffalo… stink, stank, stuck… liberty… slave… Mississippi Liver." She tried to string these new words with the old ones in sentences, but sh...

"You are China's little ambassador." (3.15)

Bandit felt as if she had been summoned by an irate emperor. This time the punishment would be more than harsh words or three strokes of a bamboo cane. Much more. But she had to obey. No one ever d...