Sharon Creech > Quotes

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”
― Sharon Creech, Absolutely Normal Chaos

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“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 Creech, Walk Two Moons

“In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“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 Creech, Walk Two Moons

“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“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 Creech, Walk Two Moons

“You never know the worth of water until the well is dry.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Sometimes
when you are trying
not to think about something
it keeps popping back in your head
you can't help it
you think about it
and
think about it
and
think about it
until your brain
feels like
a squashed pea.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

“Life is like a bowl of spaghetti.
Every once in a while, you get a meatball.”
― Sharon Creech

“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 Creech, Walk Two Moons

“The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”
― Sharon Creech, The Wanderer

“...but it doesn't feel crazy to us.
It feels like what we do.”
― Sharon Creech, Heartbeat

“I tried.
Can't do it.
Brain's empty.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

“Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?”
― Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird

“On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“And what did I think
when I was small
and why did I forget?

And what else will I forget
when I grow older?

And if you forget
is it as if
it never happened?

Will none of the things
you saw or thought or dreamed
matter?”
― Sharon Creech, Heartbeat

“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”
― Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird

“I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“how can you love a little cat
so much
in such a
short
short
time?”
― Sharon Creech, Hate That Cat

“Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.”
― Sharon Creech

“when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive”
― Sharon Creech, Bloomability

“So much depends
upon
a blue car
splattered with mud
speeding down the road.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

“I don't want to
because boys
don't write poetry.

Girls do.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

“Am I supposed to do something
important?
It doesn't seem enough
to merely take up space
on this planet
in this country
in this state
in this town
in this family.”
― Sharon Creech, Heartbeat

“Something I am wondering:
if you cannot hear
do you have no sounds
in your head?

Do you see
a
silent
movie”
― Sharon Creech, Hate That Cat

“I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.”
― Sharon Creech, The Wanderer