Maureen

“Gramps’s”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“ILL-AH-NO-WAY”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“I could tell you an extensively strange story, I warned.

Oh, good! Gram said. Delicious!”
― 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 at 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. I”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons