Sharon Creech Quotes

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

Sometimes
when you are trying
not to think about something
it keeps popping back in your head
you can't help it
you think about it
and
think about it
and
think about it
until your brain
feels like
a squashed pea.

I tried.
Can't do it.
Brain's empty.

I don't want to
because boys
don't write poetry.

Girls do.

So much depends
upon
a blue car
splattered with mud
speeding down the road.

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.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

I wondered If things that might seem frightening could lose their hold over you. I wondered If we find the people we need when we need them. I wondered If we attract our future by some sort of invisible force, or If we are drawn to it by a similar force. I felt I was turning a corner and that change was afoot.

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 sometimes kind.