"Skim" Quotes
A Japanese-Canadian high school student navigates through friendship, romance, and her own identity in this graphic novel.
graphic novels | 143 pages | Published in 2007
Quotes
I think what I want is to be happy.
happiness
I feel like I'm pretending to be someone else.
identity
I can't be who I am and what everyone wants me to be at the same time.
identityexpectations
There's so much of me people don't know.
self-discovery
It's like I'm a little boat on a big, big ocean.
metaphorlife
I'm not the only one who feels like I'm pretending.
identityshared experience
Maybe I need to figure out how to be okay by myself.
self-acceptance
I keep trying to be someone I'm not.
identityself-discovery
People think they know me, but they don't.
misunderstood
I want to be free, like a bird in the sky.
freedom





