32 Quotes by Sara Pennypacker

He could offer only withness, but nothing else was asked.

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?

Pax? That’s his name? It means ‘peace,’ you know.” Peter knew that – lots of people had told him. “But.

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.

See, broken things always have a story, don’t they?

Sometimes the apple rolls very far from the tree.

Oneness is always growing in the world, boy. Two but not two. It’s always there, connecting its roots, humming. I can’t be part of it – that’s the price I pay for taking myself away. But you can be. You can vibrate with its heartbeat. You may be on your own. But you won’t be alone.

This war that is coming – are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax.

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.