Top 191 Quotes & Sayings by Jacqueline Woodson - Page 4

That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.

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

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

I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's funny how we never know exactly how our life will go It's funny how a dream can fade with the break of day. Time can't erase the memory and time can't bring you home Last Summer was a part of me and now a part is gone. —Margaret

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

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

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

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

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

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

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?