I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.
Jacqueline WoodsonI would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.
Jacqueline WoodsonFifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.
Jacqueline WoodsonIn our yearbook, there is a picture of me and Miah - sitting in Central Park - Miah has his lips poked out and is about to kiss me on my cheek. And I'm looking straight into the camera laughing. Two and half years have passed, and still, this is how I remember us. This is how I will always remember us. And I know when I look at that picture, when I think back to those few months with Miah, that I did not miss the moment.
Jacqueline WoodsonThis is how the time moves - an hour here, a day somewhere, and then it's night and then it's morning. A clock ticking on a shelf. A small child running to school, a father coming home.
Time moves over us and past us, and the feeling of lips pressed against lips fades into memory. A picture yellows at its edges. A phone rings in an empty room.
He wondered where that stuff went to, where love went to, how a person could just love somebody one day and boom –- the next day love somebody else.
Jacqueline WoodsonStichwörter: love
This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.
Jacqueline WoodsonStichwörter: kindness
If you come as softly
as the wind within the trees.
You may hear what I hear.
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
as threading dew,
I will take you gladly,
nor ask more of you.
And sometimes,' Anne said softly, 'there's just plain love, Ellie. no reason for it, no need to explain'
Then she leaned back on the couch, crossed her ankle over her knee and grinned. 'Perfect love,' she said.
'And what's that like?'
'When you find it, lil sis. You'll know.
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