Cynthia Kadohata Quotes

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My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

Cynthia Kadohata

I almost never slept deeply anymore—as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.

Cynthia Kadohata

Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I'd had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick.

Cynthia Kadohata

I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.

Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata

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Born: July 2, 1956 (age 68)

Bio: Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the U.S. National Book Award in 2013. Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Known for:

Kira-Kira (2004)
Weedflower (2006)
The Thing About Luck (2013)
Outside beauty (2008)
A Million Shades of Gray (2010)

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