Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
“Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
“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. ”
“In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”
“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 closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. 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.”
“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”
“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”
“You never know the worth of water until the well is dry.”
“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 the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”
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Book Keywords:
bravery, love, freedom, chapter-9, fear, motherhood, sadness, expectations, pg-51
