“Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.”
―
Jacqueline Woodson,
Brown Girl Dreaming
“But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly
“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One
“When there are many worldsyou can choose the oneyou walk into each day.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“Then I let the stories liveinside my head, again and againuntil the real world fades backinto cricket lullabiesand my own dreams.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“The empty swing set reminds us of this--that bad won't be bad forever,and what is good can sometimes lasta long, long time.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
“I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's funny how we never know exactly how our life will go It's funny how a dream can fade with the break of day. Time can't erase the memory and time can't bring you home Last Summer was a part of me and now a part is gone.—Margaret” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Last Summer with Maizon
“Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,how to write down the feeling of knowingthat every dying person leaves something behind.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm’s—raised and fisted or Martin’s—open and asking or James’s—curled around a pen. I do not know if these hands will be Rosa’s or Ruby’s gently gloved and fiercely folded calmly in a lap, on a desk, around a book, ready to change the world . . .” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“In all your getting, get understanding.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Hush
“People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One
“Guess that's where the tears came from, knowing that there's so much in this great big world that you don't have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you'll have one less heartbreak in your life.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
“I lifted my head to look up into the changing leaves, thinking how at some point, we were all headed home. At some point, all of this, everything and everyone, became memory.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly
“Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Between Madison and Palmetto
“But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly
“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One
“When there are many worldsyou can choose the oneyou walk into each day.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“Then I let the stories liveinside my head, again and againuntil the real world fades backinto cricket lullabiesand my own dreams.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“The empty swing set reminds us of this--that bad won't be bad forever,and what is good can sometimes lasta long, long time.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
“I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's funny how we never know exactly how our life will go It's funny how a dream can fade with the break of day. Time can't erase the memory and time can't bring you home Last Summer was a part of me and now a part is gone.—Margaret” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Last Summer with Maizon
“Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,how to write down the feeling of knowingthat every dying person leaves something behind.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm’s—raised and fisted or Martin’s—open and asking or James’s—curled around a pen. I do not know if these hands will be Rosa’s or Ruby’s gently gloved and fiercely folded calmly in a lap, on a desk, around a book, ready to change the world . . .” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“In all your getting, get understanding.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Hush
“People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One
“Guess that's where the tears came from, knowing that there's so much in this great big world that you don't have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you'll have one less heartbreak in your life.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
“I lifted my head to look up into the changing leaves, thinking how at some point, we were all headed home. At some point, all of this, everything and everyone, became memory.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly
“Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.” ― Jacqueline Woodson, Between Madison and Palmetto
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