When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park--Worthy Text

"They cannot have my thoughts. I will not allow it. She held up her hand. ...Five fingers of thought --that is all I will give them. Not one more finger" (Park, Linda Sue. 58).

 "If I could choose to be anything, I would choose Wind. I would blow my way swiftly to wherever you are and hide myself among the leaves of the nearest trees" (94).

"You burn the paper but not the words. You silence the words but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts arise again in the minds of others--twice as strong as before" (106).