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 CreechTag: fear expectations
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 CreechTag: motherhood
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 Creechwhen i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive
Sharon CreechMan needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.
Sharon CreechA person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
Sharon CreechTag: freedom
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 CreechTag: sadness
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
Sharon CreechTag: sadness
So much depends
upon
a blue car
splattered with mud
speeding down the road.
Tag: poetry
I don't want to
because boys
don't write poetry.
Girls do.
Tag: poetry
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