327 Quotes by Jacqueline Woodson

Y’all know how much I love you? “Infinity and back again,” I say the way I’ve said it a million times. And then, daddy says to me, “go on and add a little bit more to that.

But we do not know yet who we are fighting and what we are fighting for.

I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands.

Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head becoming sentences written by Jacqueline Amanda Woodson.

Two steps to the left or right or back or front and you’re standing outside your life.

Does it sound crazy to say I looked at her and saw the world falling into some kind of order that I didn’t even know it was out of?

Probably still believed that if you wished hard enough you could make the impossible happen.

He would give his own life to see Melody able to stay this young, to see her live her teenage life – all the years. He wanted to pull her to him now. Say, Hold on to yourself, Melody. Don’t get lost. He wanted to say again what he’d said to her so many times before. You’re loved, baby, you’re loved.

You got something you love, little man? Then you good. You love food? You cook. You love clothes? You design. You love the wind and water? You sail.