Sharon Creech > Quotes

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”
― Sharon Creech, Absolutely Normal Chaos

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“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. ”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Life is like a bowl of spaghetti.
Every once in a while, you get a meatball.”
― Sharon Creech

“In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“...but it doesn't feel crazy to us.
It feels like what we do.”
― Sharon Creech, Heartbeat

“Sometimes
when you are trying
not to think about something
it keeps popping back in your head
you can't help it
you think about it
and
think about it
and
think about it
until your brain
feels like
a squashed pea.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

“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.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“I tried.
Can't do it.
Brain's empty.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

“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?”
― Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird

“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.”
― Sharon Creech

“On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“In the course of a lifetime, what will it matter?”
― Sharon Creech

“how can you love a little cat
so much
in such a
short
short
time?”
― Sharon Creech, Hate That Cat

“when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive”
― Sharon Creech, Bloomability

“I don't want to
because boys
don't write poetry.

Girls do.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”
― Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird

“It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.”
― Sharon Creech

“My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.”
― Sharon Creech, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

“That night I kept thinking about Pandora's box. I wondered why someone would put a good thing as Hope in a box with sickness and kidnapping and murder. It was fortunate that it was there, though. If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear war and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics.
There must have been another box with all the good things in it, like sunshine and love and trees and all that. Who had the good fortune to open that one, and was there one bad thing down there in the bottom of the good box? Maybe it was Worry. Even when everything seems fine and good, I worry that something will go wrong and change everything.”
― Sharon Creech

“So much depends
upon
a blue car
splattered with mud
speeding down the road.”
― Sharon Creech, Love That Dog

“Something I am wondering:
if you cannot hear
do you have no sounds
in your head?

Do you see
a
silent
movie”
― Sharon Creech, Hate That Cat

“By the time I got to the bottom, I understood what Guthrie ment when he shouted LIBERO! It was a celebration of being alive.”
― Sharon Creech, Bloomability

“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.”
― Sharon Creech, The Wanderer

“I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me.

—Rosie”
― Sharon Creech, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

“I don't care if the whole town comes, as long as you come, Bailey boy.”
― Sharon Creech, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

“Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel.”
― Sharon Creech, The Unfinished Angel

“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 ever matter?”
― Sharon Creech, Heartbeat

“the book walk two moons i have read it before because my old teacher just gave me a book and told be to read it, so i did. and i just feel in love with it! its about a girl named Sal, and her grandparents take her on a road trip to see up north like north Dakota. and two stories cross and form one! and you cant judge a man unless who have walked two moons in his shoes! so its really great!

*i love hippies*”
― Sharon Creech