Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?
Jacqueline WoodsonI have all this stuff—all these thoughts going on inside me and they all seem so—so dangerous."
—Tyler
If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them."
—Staggerlee
I wouldn't mind the early autumn
if you came home today
I'd tell you how much I miss you
and know I'd be okay.
It's funny how we never know
exactly how our life will go
It's funny how a dream can fade
with the break of day.
Time can't erase the memory
and time can't bring you home
Last Summer was a part of me
and now a part is gone.
—Margaret
What did it sound like...having someone call your name across a crowded school yard? How did it feel to turn to the sound of your name, to see some smiling face or waving hand and know it was for you and you alone?"
—Staggerlee
And freedom? Oh, freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back.
—Margaret
You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and it's coming so easily, and these characters are so great.' You put it aside for whatever reason, and you open it up a week later and the characters have turned to cardboard and the book has completely fallen apart," she says. "That's the moment of truth for every writer: Can I go on from here and make this book into something? I think it separates the writers from the nonwriters. And I think it's the reason a lot of people have that unfinished manuscript around the house, that albatross.
Jacqueline WoodsonTags: writing
Thing about white people," Jeremiah's father tells him, "they know what everybody else is, but they don't know they're white" - "Maybe some know it" His father eyed him and smiled "When they walk into a party and everyone's black, they know it. Or when they get caught in Harlem after nightfall, they know it. But otherwise...
Jacqueline WoodsonYou're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?
—D
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