Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.”
“But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.”
“I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.”
“When there are many worlds you can choose the one you walk into each day.”
“Then I let the stories live inside my head, again and again until the real world fades back into cricket lullabies and my own dreams.”
“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.”
“The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.”
“Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.”
“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 . . .”
“Somewhere in my brain each laugh, tear and lullaby becomes memory.”
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butterfly, inspirational-quotes, death, butterflies, writing
