Cynthia Kadohata said this quote

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

~ Cynthia Kadohata

It sounded so weird when people called shoyu soy sauce. It made it sound like Tabasco or something instead of the clean and perfect thing that it was.

~ Cynthia Kadohata

I cried and cried. But then I had to stop. One thing about me was that when I was having a serious wish session, I tried never to wish impossible wishes. I might have wished for sixteen crayons instead of eight, but even when I was little, I never wished for a thousand crayons, because I knew a thousand different crayons did not exist. So on that forty-ninth day I did not wish Lynn could be alive again, because I knew she was gone.

~ Cynthia Kadohata

Lynn said, The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time. What did I just say?The sky is special.The ocean is like that too, and people's eyes.She turned her head toward me and waited. I said, The ocean and people's eyes are special too.That's how I learned about eyes, sky, and ocean: the three special, deep, colored, see-through things. I turned to Lynnie. Her eyes were deep and black, like mine.

~ Cynthia Kadohata