32 Quotes by Sara Pennypacker

You’re going to work some puppets for me. Marionettes. That sound too hard?” “Marionettes?

If you don’t want to know the truth, you’ll do anything to disguise it.

I felt better when I got there. I don’t know what it is about a beach – the drifty, fake-coconut scent of suntan lotion, the endless whoosh of little waves lapping the shore, or the way the sun beats down so bright and hot, you feel too baked to think – but when I was there, I could almost forget everything. I floated in the cool water, too tired to actually swim, then flopped down on a towel and read. I read a lot.” -Stella.

It is now. But a trip like this? You will find something to fill it with. A truth of your own, that you discover on your own.

You may be on your own. But you won’t be alone.