Penguin Bloom Quotes

  • [first lines]

    Noah Bloom: [narrating] Mom loves the ocean. She always has. Mom meet dad on the beach when there were teenagers. They've been together ever since. That's me when I was four. Rueben's my middle brother. He's always been annoying. And then Oli, lucky last. And that's us, the Blooms.

    [family photo]

    Noah Bloom: Everything was pretty much perfect. But then last year happened. Us kids wanted to go to Disney Land. But mom and dad chose Thailand instead. I liked Thailand.

  • Noah Bloom: [narrating] Mom broke her back at what the doctors called T-6. But what mom calls her "bra strap".

  • Noah Bloom: [narrating] Mom's not the person she once was. And I know she's not the person she wanted to be. But to me, she's much more than that.