124 Quotes by Sharon Creech

Sometimes there's not much difference between a heartsick soul and a suck ole donkey.

It is not a good idea to call yourself a sardine in a family like Leo's, who will not let you forget it.

Something I am wondering:if you cannot heardo you have no soundsin your head?Do you seea silent movie

Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

Tutto va Bene, All is Well.

I cannot control who was going to come, and who was going to go, and who will stay my buddy, my pal, and who'll find me enchanting, and oddly I feel relieved.

how can you love a little catso muchin such ashortshorttime?

But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us to be right there, right then. I thought about the few thing we thought we knew and the billions of things we couldn't know, all spinning, whirling our there somewhere.