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Walk Two Moons QUOTES

Walk Two Moons QUOTES

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

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

2 " 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. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

3 " 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. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

4 " I had not said anything about what had happened the day before—about 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 that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

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

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

6 " You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

7 " 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. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

8 " 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. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

9 " 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. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

10 " Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

11 " In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter? "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

12 " You never know the worth of water until the well is dry. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

13 " On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

14 " I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

15 " I am still jealous that Phoebe’s mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

16 " My father once said I was as gullible as a fish. I thought he said edible. I thought he meant I was tasty. The "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

17 " 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 at 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. I "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

18 " Gramps said, 'How about a story? Spin us a yarn. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

19 " At home that night, I was working on my mythology report when Phoebe called. She was whispering. When she went downstairs to say good night to her father, he was sitting in his favorite chair staring at the television, but the television wasn't on. If she didn't know her father better, she would have though he had been crying. 'But my father never cries,' she said. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

20 " At home that night, I was working on my mythology report when Phoebe called. She was whispering. When she went downstairs to say goodnight to her father, he was sitting in his favorite chair staring at the television, but the television wasn't on. If she did not know her father any better, she would have thought he had been crying. 'But my father never cries,' she said.

But my father never cries. "

― Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons