Heidi W. Durrow Quotes

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I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

Heidi W. Durrow

It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.

Heidi W. Durrow

If there's no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true.

Heidi W. Durrow

The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues—it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.

Heidi W. Durrow

Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.

Heidi W. Durrow

Heidi W. Durrow

Heidi W. Durrow

Born: June 21, 1969 (age 55)

Bio: Heidi W. Durrow is an American writer, author of best-seller The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, and the winner of the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction.

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