Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time—when I was young and free and living.
Jacqueline WoodsonPeople are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.
Jacqueline WoodsonI feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living
Jacqueline WoodsonI think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking.
—Lena
You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?
Jacqueline WoodsonLately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.
Jacqueline WoodsonFeels like I've known him since before he got to the world—longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends really...Somewhere before life on earth...
Jacqueline WoodsonKids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment.
Jacqueline WoodsonI'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.
Jacqueline WoodsonYou can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.
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