Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Nancy Willard

Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog, they know what kind of a dog you are, who you run with, where you hide your bones, the accidental piddle behind the couch, the fight you got into with the boxer, and your thoughts on the hot poodle down the street.

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

What you need will come back to you.

What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

Live in your roots, not in your branches.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Faith takes root in the insignificant.

the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.