Why the Star Stands Still Quotes

“In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear with me.

Sutummu tukummuinna. It means, I don't speak your language, and you don't speak mine. But I still understand you. I don't need to walk in your footsteps if I can see the footprints you left behind.”
― Rose Christo, Why the Star Stands Still

“Seventeen years. That's how long I've known him. That's how long I've loved him. Seventeen years later and he still makes my heart feel giddy and weightless. Seventeen years later and my favorite place in the world is still the safety of his arms.

Seventeen years later and I'm still a sappy idiot. Go figure.”
― Rose Christo, Why the Star Stands Still

“I'm always gonna protect you. And I'm always gonna protect that little girl. There's no way in hell I'll let that woman get her hands on her."

"Rafael," I said.

"Yeah?"

"You are the most wonderful person I've ever known."

It took him a moment to answer me--and when he did, I though he sounded bashful.

"I'd better be," he said. "Because, you know. That's what you deserve.”
― Rose Christo, Why the Star Stands Still

“I picked up my flute and smiled, eyebrows dancing. "Why don't you show her your straight dance?"

"Is there a gay dance, too?" Mickey asked.”
― Rose Christo, Why the Star Stands Still

“The world doesn't really change, does it?  We come and we go, and we think we're so important, we can't possibly comprehend how the world doesn't come tumbling down when our lives do.  It's so cold, so heartless.  So beautiful.  It doesn't matter how many of us walk across the surface of the planet.  The sun will still rise when we've finished rising with it.  The earth is no less warmer for our absence on it.”
― Rose Christo, Why the Star Stands Still

“Sutummu tukummuinna.  It means:  I don't speak your language, and you don't speak mine.  But I still understand you.  I don't need to walk in your footsteps if I can see the footprints you left behind.”
― Rose Christo, Why the Star Stands Still

“If we can die at any minute," I said, "why are you wasting your life dreading it? Why don't you just live while you have the chance?”
― Rose Christo, Why the Star Stands Still

“The dead don't know what it means to die.  Only the living can know it.  Only the living live with loss, heartache, and grief.”
― Rose Christo, Why the Star Stands Still