That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.
Jacqueline WoodsonSometimes...it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.
Jacqueline WoodsonLife...moves us through all the time changes. All kinds of changes. And we're made so that we roll and move with it. Sometimes somebody gets stuck in the present and the rolling stops—but the changing doesn't.
Jacqueline WoodsonSometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
Jacqueline WoodsonBut it's what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools.
Jacqueline WoodsonIt seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that's the way the world worked—people were born and people died, people left and people came. It was like the world was saying you can't have everything you want at the same time.
Jacqueline WoodsonSome days I just think the whole world and life and everything is stupid. And that's 'cause I be missing you.
Jacqueline WoodsonSeems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.
Jacqueline WoodsonNo matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
Jacqueline WoodsonSometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.
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