327 Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

Guess that’s where the tears came from, knowing that there’s so much in this great big world that you don’t have a single ounce of control over. Guess the sooner you learn that, the sooner you’ll have one less heartbreak in your life. Oh Lord. Some evenings I don’t know where the old pains end and the new ones begin. Fells like the older you get the more they run into one long, deep aching.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something’s gotta go and happen.

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

Somewhere in my brain each laugh, tear and lullaby becomes memory.

Stories can be windows, but also mirrors.

Old people used to always say, You only as old as you feel. Here I am closer to fifty than forty, but I feel older than that most days. Feel like the world is trying to pull me down back into it.

He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it – the ending and beginning of things.

Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time – when I was young and free and living.

My sister’s clear soft voice opens up the world to me. I lean in so hungry for it.