32 Quotes by Sara Pennypacker

Peter shifted his backpack and crutches. He took a step toward the bus. Then he turned back. "I'm family?" "That's as true a thing as I've ever known. Now get on that bus.

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.

Oh, let me tell you, feelings are all dangerous. Love, hope... Ha! Hope! You talk about dangerous, eh? No, you can't avoid any of them. We all own a beast called anger. It can serve us: many good things come out of anger at bad things; many unjust things are made just. But first we all have to figure out how to civilize it.

It always seemed like a snake to him, his anxiety. Waiting just out of sight, ready to slither up his spine, hissing its familiar taunt: “You aren’t where you should be. Something bad is going to happen because you aren’t where you should be.

Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution.

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.

I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.

[A] baseball field was the only place where he felt he was exactly where he was born to be.