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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “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”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Last Summer with Maizon
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Between Madison and Palmetto
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Maizon at Blue Hill
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “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”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Last Summer with Maizon
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Peace, Locomotion
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, After Tupac and D Foster
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them."

    —Staggerlee”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, The House You Pass on the Way
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “Sometimes 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. ”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Peace, Locomotion
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “In all your getting, get understanding.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Hush
    tags: identity, life-experience
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Behind You
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “Some days I just think the whole world and life and everything is stupid. And that's 'cause I be missing you.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Peace, Locomotion
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Maizon at Blue Hill
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, The Other Side
    tags: chidlren-s-books
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time—when I was young and free and living.”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, Behind You
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    Jacqueline Woodson
    “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”
    ― Jacqueline Woodson, The House You Pass on the Way
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #30
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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