28 Quotes by Jacqueline Kelly

It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

Could anything top the promise and potential of a blank page? What could be more satisfying? Never mind that it would soon be crammed with awkward penmanship, that my handwriting inevitably sloped downhill to the right-hand corner, that I blotted my ink, that my drawings never came out the way I saw them in my head. Never mind all that. What counted was possibility. You could live on possibility, at least for a while.

Granddaddy had told me about the wasp that could opt to be male or female while in a larval stage. An interesting thought. I wondered why human children weren't given that option in their grub stage, say up through age five. With everything I had seen about the lives of boys and girls, I would definitely choose to be a boy grub.

El señor Charles Darwin tenía razón, y la prueba de ello estaba en mi propio jardin

pasaron las horas y el sol se fue moviendo allá en lo alto (o, para ser exactos, lo hicimos nosotros aquí abajo, rotando despacio desde el día hacia la noche.

Cama, libro, gatito y sándwich. Realmente, todo lo que una necesita en la vida.

Era una lástima, pero a veces un poco de conocimiento podía estropearte el día, o al menos quitarle un poco de su esplendor.

I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.

When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.