120 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye

He’s mourning his son, number 3000 American dead in Iraq, but as far as he can feel, the worst one.

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

Maybe we should just wander around other countries carrying books.

I’m still the kid dreaming of the lives she’ll never have but guess what? Maybe she doesn’t want them.

I realized that I travel too much on the day I began tidying an airport as if it were my bedroom.

I was a fool, and I will always be a fool, and there will never, never, be a last day of school.

Freedom will feel good to you too. Please acknowledge our higher purpose.

I’m writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?