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Quotes to Note

Quotes to Note (1-14)
“I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited...” (5).
“Almost all of the rich and famous brown people are artists” (6).
“My parents came from poor people who came from poor people…”(11).

Quotes to Note (15-31)
“So I draw cartoons to make him happy, to give him other worlds to live inside” (23).
“Rowdy and I are inseparable” (24).
“My school and my tribe are so poor and so sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world” (31).

Quotes to Note (32-47)
“We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child” (35).
“There’s always time to change your life” (40).
“My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something” (46).

Quotes to Note (48-66)
“I wanted to tell him that he was my best friend and that I loved him like crazy, but boys didn’t say such things to other boys” (48-49).
“My best friend had become my worst enemy” (53).

Quotes to Note (67-98)
“My sister’s spirit hadn’t been killed” (91).
“If you’re good at something, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the world, then it can’t be wrong” (95).

Quotes to Note (99-134)
“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess” (107).
“We were supposed to be happy with our limitations” (112).
“It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part-time job. And it didn’t pay very well” (118).
“If you let people in your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing” (129).
“Yep, even the weird boys are afraid of their emotions” (132).

Quotes to Note (135-167)
“Quitting is contagious” (138).
“Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn’t touch the world with all of my senses intact?” (158).
“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing” (166).

Quotes to Note (168-196)
“We only know how to lose and be lost” (173).
“It became my grieving ceremony” (178).
“The power of expectations…” (180).
“I would always be an outsider” (181).
“We were all boys desperate to be men” (187).
“You have to love somebody so much to also hate them that much too” (191).

Quotes to Note (197-end)
“I know that death is never added to death; it multiplies” (212).
“I belonged to that tribe…”(217).
“I would always love Rowdy. And I would always miss him too…” (230).



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