86 Quotes by Sharon M. Draper

Fifth grade is probably pretty rocky for lots of kids. Homework. Never being quite sure if you’re cool enough. Clothes. Parents. Wanting to play with toys and wanting to be grown up all at the same time. Underarm odor. I guess I have all that, plus about a million different layers of other stuff to deal with. Making people understand what I want. Worrying about what I look like. Fitting in. Will a boy ever like me? Maybe I’m not so different from everyone else after all.

Stella wondered how silence could be so loud.

Dad also has the loudest, stinkiest farts in creation. I don’t know how he manages to control them at work, or even if he does, but when he’d get home, he’d let them loose. They’d start as he walked up the stairs.

Freedom is a delicate flower, like a pretty leaf in the air: It’s hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it, she observed quietly.- Polly from Copper Sun.

My mind is cloudy. My heart is bloody, and my soul is on ice.

My parents have always blanketed me with conversation.

I tried so hard, I farted! Mrs.

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

We’ve got to think positive thoughts.