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Somewhere in my brain
each laugh, tear and lullaby
becomes memory. — Jacqueline Woodson

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on. — Jacqueline Woodson

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side - if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in. — Jacqueline Woodson

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out. — Jacqueline Woodson

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them.
- Staggerlee — Jacqueline Woodson

That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that. — Jacqueline Woodson

When I took these things from the house:
some tapes, some books, my winter clothes,
I did not know that these would become the
things I own. — Jacqueline Woodson

So this is what he believes in
your hands in the cool dirt
until the earth gives back to you
all that you've asked of it. — Jacqueline Woodson

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together. — Jacqueline Woodson

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere. — Jacqueline Woodson

How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again. — Jacqueline Woodson

Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time - when I was young and free and living. — Jacqueline Woodson

Wasn't afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks. — Jacqueline Woodson

And it's not even strange that it feels the way it's always felt like the place we belong to. Like home. — Jacqueline Woodson

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise, — Jacqueline Woodson

This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it. — Jacqueline Woodson

The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated. — Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes people don't get a chance to say good-bye, Stag. — Jacqueline Woodson

Do you remember?'
Someone's always asking and
someone else, always does — Jacqueline Woodson

But it's what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools. — Jacqueline Woodson

They're all inside of us, ... past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become. — Jacqueline Woodson

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might. — Jacqueline Woodson

That's good. Always take the time. You really never know when you're not going to have it anymore. — Jacqueline Woodson

I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be. — Jacqueline Woodson

No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears. — Jacqueline Woodson

Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. — Jacqueline Woodson

Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment. — Jacqueline Woodson

You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people. — Jacqueline Woodson

Write down what I think I know. The knowing will come.
Just keep listening ... — Jacqueline Woodson

And freedom? Oh, freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone. — Jacqueline Woodson

We don't know to be sad, the weight of our grandparents' love like a blanket with us beneath it, safe and warm. — Jacqueline Woodson

In all your getting, get understanding. — Jacqueline Woodson

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking.
- Lena — Jacqueline Woodson

know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It is the memory. — Jacqueline Woodson

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone - adults promising us their own failed future. — Jacqueline Woodson

Then I let the stories live
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams. — Jacqueline Woodson

I have all this stuff - all these thoughts going on inside me and they all seem so - so dangerous.
- Tyler — Jacqueline Woodson

To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it. — Jacqueline Woodson

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen. — Jacqueline Woodson

But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies. — Jacqueline Woodson

There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity. — Jacqueline Woodson

I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers. — Jacqueline Woodson

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking. — Jacqueline Woodson

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? — Jacqueline Woodson

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do ... Don't worry about other people. Worry about you. — Jacqueline Woodson

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back. — Jacqueline Woodson

My whole family knows I can't sing. My voice, my sister says, is just left of the key. Just right of the tune. But I sing anyway, whenever I can. — Jacqueline Woodson

I work hard, he says, I treat people like I want to be treated. God sees this, God knows. — Jacqueline Woodson

Stories can be windows, but also mirrors. — Jacqueline Woodson

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. — Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes ... you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living. — Jacqueline Woodson

Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity. — Jacqueline Woodson

Some days I just think the whole world and life and everything is stupid. And that's 'cause I be missing you. — Jacqueline Woodson

She said she was going to live-that tomorrow wasn't guaranteed. — Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind. — Jacqueline Woodson

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson

I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands. — Jacqueline Woodson

You're a part of me ... You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?
- D — Jacqueline Woodson

This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world. — Jacqueline Woodson

Everyone else
has gone away.
And now coming back home
isn't really coming back home at all. — Jacqueline Woodson

My mother has a gap between
her two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.
Each child in this family has the same space
connecting us. — Jacqueline Woodson

When there are many worlds
you can choose the one
you walk into each day. — Jacqueline Woodson

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now. — Jacqueline Woodson

Probably still believed that if you wished hard enough you could make the impossible happen. — Jacqueline Woodson

No past. No future. Just this perfect Now. — Jacqueline Woodson

We knew Down South. Everyone had one. Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico. — Jacqueline Woodson

Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen. — Jacqueline Woodson

The empty swing set reminds us of this
that bad won't be bad forever,
and what is good can sometimes last
a long, long time. — Jacqueline Woodson

My sister's clear soft voice opens up the world to me. I lean in so hungry for it. — Jacqueline Woodson

My mamma says I shouldn't go on the other side ... My mama says the same thing. But she never said nothing about sitting on it — Jacqueline Woodson

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic. — Jacqueline Woodson

Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down. — Jacqueline Woodson