124 Quotes by Sharon Creech

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry.Girls do.

So much dependsupona blue carsplattered with mudspeeding down the road.

I hated her that day. I didn't care how upset she was about her mother, I really hated her, and I wanted her to leave. I wondered if this was how my father felt when I threw all those temper tantrums. Maybe he hated me for a while.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….

At home that night, I was working on my mythology report when Phoebe called. She was whispering. When she went downstairs to say good night to her father, he was sitting in his favorite chair staring at the television, but the television wasn't on. If she didn't know her father better, she would have though he had been crying. 'But my father never cries,' she said.

Gramps said, 'How about a story? Spin us a yarn.