Shari Green > Quotes

“If you love books
read a great many books.
If you love to sing,
sing loudly and often.
Whatever you do
do it with all your heart.”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“If you love something you should love it extravagantly.”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“Maybe I really can see
The face of God.
Maybe it's there
When I sit with my
Patched-together family
For pancake breakfast.
Maybe it's in the power
Of the sea,
Or in the driftwood
That gets hurled about
By storms.
Maybe it's in the words
Of an ice-cream man
Or the joyful leaps
Of a dolphin.
It might even be in the pain
Of leaving my new best friend,
Or maybe
It's especially in that.
Maybe all these things
Show me the face of God,
Or maybe they just show me
A bit of light
Or love
Or happiness.
And maybe that's exactly
The same thing.”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“I close my hand
around the bit of turquoise sea glass
in my pocket,
rub its smooth edges
with my thumb -
a broken bit
made smooth and beautiful,
changed
by the sea."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“I guess truth
is like treasure-
no good to anyone
if it's hidden,
tucked away in a box,
lost."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“A hint of a smile
appears on her face.
Not the laughter-coming smile
but the kind you get
when you're remembering heart things
like quiet times
with your mom
or the moment you knew a certain someone
was going to be your friend."
-Macy”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“The room
And my heart
Are draped
With a wondrous hush
Like swimming under water.”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“He hands me a book-
paperback cover
with a picture
of the bay.
I flip through,
find picture
after picture
from my month
in Felicity Bay,
all those
*beep*
*click*
*beep*
times that Daniel
captured,
put in a book -
a baby crab,
mermaid hair,
Froot Loops,
sandy toes,
tree house,
and even
stained glass windows,
and a chalice -
moments of significance,
ordinary things
that turned out to be
extraordinary."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“Who knew a person could taste lies?”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“Turns out
there are as many stories
in the bits and bobs
as there are in the books

but those ones...those are the kind of stories
that need to be shared
while drinking lemonade
and eating sugar & spice cookies”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“Tuesday it rains
of course-
a perfect day
for books."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“Maybe it's possible to be home
even without a house
but without your family?
"That doesn't make sense," I say.

"Safe is home," Jewel says. "Wanted
is home. I have all that here.
And this?" She gestures
at the room. "Let's just say
it isn't a car.”
― Shari Green, Missing Mike

“I really thought I wanted magic -
for God to do big
dramatic
miracles,
fix my family,
Daniel's lungs,
everything,
but the ordinary mess
and the spoon-worthy,
*beep-click-beep* moments
are actually
sort of cool -
a different kind of perfect"
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“OLOTB: You should look at it under a microscope.
Bailey: Look at what?
OLOTB: The sand. You'd think it would be boring bits of gray nothingness, but it's not. It's minerals--quartz, fragments of sea shells, all sorts of delightful things. Exquisite, really.
Bailey: So, I just ran across a bunch of minerals?
OLOTB: Who'd have thought you were tromping on such beauty?”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“How can a person look sad
even though
he's smiling?
Like rain
from a clear blue sky."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“the kind of stories that start from a seed
a scrap
a spark of memory
and then
when you begin to tell them
they burst into bloom
like a field of wildflowers
on the first hot day
of summer.”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“Isn't *up*
where hopes
are supposed to be?"
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“A single "woof"
---Mike was waiting
watching.
He jumped the busted fence
when he saw me coming
rushed over
so he could greet me properly.
I dropped to one knee
soaked up Mike's welcome
and everything about my bad day
ran off me
like rainwater rushing
along the edge of the road
to the drain.

Having someone who loves you enough
to wait
in the dreary weather
someone who's happy to see you
no matter what mood
you're in...

there's nothing better than that.”
― Shari Green, Missing Mike

“You're taking down your fence? I say.

Got enough things
Keeping people apart
Without adding a crooked fence.”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“OLOTB: Do you know what my favorite creatures are?

Bailey: ...

OLOTB: Sea stars. I'm very fond of them. Can you guess why?

Bailey: Their colors?

OLOTB: They regenerate - if they lose and arm, they grow a new one. Amazing! It's just a little bud at first, but in a year or so, they've got a whole new arm.

Bailey: A year?

OLOTB: You don't suppose growing something new is easy, do you?”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“If you love books?

If you love books
read a great many books.
If you love to sing,
sing loudly
and often.
Whatever you do
do it with all your heart.”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“What good is truth
if you bury it?"
-Jasper”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“I guess you never know
how brave you are
until you let go
of the rope."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“She knows what it's like
to leave
to run
to be away from home
and full of worry
and I bet
she's as surprised as I am
that a terrible happening
can make strangers
feel like kin”
― Shari Green, Missing Mike

“If you love something
you should love it extravagantly."
-Iris”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“...fear makes people hold tight to things,
whether it makes sense
or not."
-Nana Marie”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“For just a moment
Ms. Gillan reminds me
of an autumn leaf
just as alone
as I am.”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

“Her home
was a car?
It's obvious
she doesn't want to talk about it
but I need to know
---need to know it's possible
to feel at home
even if my house burns down”
― Shari Green, Missing Mike

“When Mom calls
after dinner,
I tell her about the good party
gone bad.
She says that can happen
to even the best
of things."
-Bailey”
― Shari Green, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

“because stories
are worth saving
sharing
hanging on to
and giving away”
― Shari Green, Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess