124 Quotes by Sharon Creech

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.

In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.