Patricia Reilly Giff: Likeness

Patricia Reilly Giff is American children's writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“Writing wasn't easy for her. It wasn't like arithmetic, not like a column of numbers to be added or subtracted from the top of the blackboard to the bottom, neat and organized; or science, figuring out the why of things.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 65

“How could she know what she wanted to do with her life? All these years she thought she'd be a healer like Mama, and now she knew it was never going to happen.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 64

“What had it been like the first time Da tried to read the same page? She could almost see his finger under each word, the whisper of his voice as he sounded out the words to himself. How had he ever done that? It seemed impossible.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 95-96

“He knew what she'd be reading first as she started from the beginning, reading what he'd had to say when he was younger, and then growing older, stories at first about tiny mice who lived in families in back of the wall, and stories about school, and apartments in Greenpoint and Carnasie and Flatbush, elves in Ireland that he'd pictured as Pop had told him about them, and the woman with lace on her sleeves.
She kept turning pages, and then halfway through, she whispered, "Water Street."
Thomas knew she was reading now about a boy who listened at a register, thinking about a family, and a lighthouse, and then she turned the next page and took a breath.
It was the story he really wanted her to see: a story about a girl who though less of herself than everyone else did, who worried about everyone, even when she didn't want to, even when it made her irritable. A girl who was afraid, and who hardly knew it yet, but was on her way to being a healer like her mother, because there'd never be anything else for her, and how lucky they were just to know her.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 21-29, p. 135-136

“No one in the world like my sister Birdie.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 84; spoken by Hughie