22 quotes found
“I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.”
“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”
“I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry.Girls do.”
“What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.”
“So much dependsupona blue carsplattered with mudspeeding down the road.”
“I love the way that each bookany bookis its own journey. You open it, and off you go.”
“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. ”
“It seems to me that we cant explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we cant fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer ...”
“I had not said anything about what had happened the day beforeabout being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us ...”
“Mrs. Mudkin closed her eyes. "We should pray.""I ain't praying," Crazy Cora said. Mrs. Mudkin said, "Lord, please bless---""I ain't praying.""--this land and the people who--""I ain't praying.""--h...”
“Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn't be able to see the itty-bitty people racing around worrying you wouldn't see the barn falling...”
“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”
“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for th...”
“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears, Gram said. If you have three or four or more chickabiddies, youre dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You dont have time to think about...”
“It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometime...”
“The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”
“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
“It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are close...”
