327 Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

When there are many worlds you can choose the one you walk into each day.

Maybe all over the world there were daughters who knew their mothers as young girls and old women, inside and out, deep. I wasn’t one of them. Even when I was a baby, my memory of her is being only halfway here.

No past. No future. Just this perfect Now.

I love that people think the world is even halfway ready for what we about to bring.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

I think I’d rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. – Lena.

Some people don’t believe that you can meet a person and know that’s the person for you for the rest of your life. I’m not going to try to argue with them on that. I know what I know.

I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame – of everything.

But it’s what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools.