327 Quotes by 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?

That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.

No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.