“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?” PeopleIfsDifferentSawsDependsDifferent Things Author:Sharon Creech
“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.” PeopleIfsSometimesFearRealizingCourageExpectationsBraveBonesFrightenedPretendingExpectingBe BraveRealisedOvercoming FearHigh Expectations Book:Walk Two Moons Source: Walk Two Moons
“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.” IfsThinkingTryingSaidTwoMotherThreeLeftSpaceRoomsFourEmptyEarsHarderHotDancingBeing A MotherTime To ThinkEmpty Space Author:Sharon Creech
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWould BeWantedNiceThinking About LifeGet Insurance Book:The wanderer Source: The wanderer
“Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie” IfsSoundWonderSilentSilent Movies Book:Hate That Cat: A Novel Source: Hate That Cat: A Novel
“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?” IfsThinkingMatterGrowsForgetSawsHappened Author:Sharon Creech
“I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.” IfsNeedsWould BeLeftTinyInvisibleBottlesNailsCleaningJumpingPolishBakingSewingHemNail Polish Author:Sharon Creech
