Celena’s Reviews > Brown Girl Dreaming > Status Update

"Every dandelion blown each Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight. My wis is always the same. Every fallen eyelash and first firefly of summer...the dream remains. What did you wish for? To be a writer. Every heads-up penny found and daydream and night dream and even when people say it's a pipe dream...! I want to be a writer"

"The song rocks me gently into and out of dreaming and in the dream, a train filled with love goes on and on." - 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.

"Nothing in the world is like this - a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters."

"This I can do - find him another place to be when the world is choking him. Tell me a story, he says. And I do."

"You don't need words on a night like this. Just the warmth of your grandfather's arm. Just the silent promise that the world as we know it will always be there."

Bible times, the reader, the beginning, hope. Great four chapters.

"'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

"Our questions come fast but we want the stories more than we want the answers..."