15 quotes found
Children's author · American
American children's author
“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”
“She said fear is just a flashlight that helps you find your courage.”
“Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.”
“I learned that courage and fear always come as a pair. If you've gone one inside you, you've surely got the other.”
“My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about things that matter.”
“Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true.”
“The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I've learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the ...”
“I'm convinced Midnight Gulch can't be the only magical town in the world. I bet there's a snicker of magic on every street, in every old building, every broken heart, every word of a story. Maybe i...”
“Believe is a powerful word to see and to say. But that morning, I felt it. And feeling it was the best of all. I knew something wonderful was about to happen to me. I didn't know what, or why, or h...”
“I didn't say another word to Mama that night, but I could feel something good even then: the YES in my heart, the swirling-around in my belly, the prickly tingling all the way from the freckle on m...”
“If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.”
“And if you say 'I love you,' and you mean it, then love makes up for a whole lifetime of mistakes. That's some kind of magic.”
“I woke up to an ache in my chest, the smell of chocolate, and the sound of the ghost making a racket in the kitchen. Now, I'm not the sort to dwell on doom and sorrow. Life is too short for that. B...”
“It's so weird how life is so full of moving around--people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person's going to steal your heart. You never know which...”
“Every day you live is a day for dreaming.Every day is a day for adventuring.And every day is for sharing with people you love,because love's all that lasts.It's the only thing we carry out of this ...”
