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

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected. ~ Sharon Creech

Sometimes there's not much difference between a heartsick soul and a suck ole donkey. ~ Sharon Creech

Let's get out of here, my mother said. ~ Sharon Creech

Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes? ~ Sharon Creech

Tutto va Bene, All is Well. ~ Sharon Creech

In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter? ~ Sharon Creech

A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you. ~ Sharon Creech

She told how the fear had slipped away through the year, 'slipped away silently and secretly', and how we mustn't be afraid to try new things. ~ Sharon Creech

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out. ~ Sharon Creech

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do. ~ Sharon Creech

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. ~ Sharon Creech

I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me.
- Rosie ~ Sharon Creech

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

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby. ~ Sharon Creech

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it. ~ Sharon Creech

I'm New-"
"New? How blessed," he said. "There's nothing in this whole wide world that is better than a new person! ~ Sharon Creech

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road. ~ Sharon Creech

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

Something I am wondering:
if you cannot hear
do you have no sounds
in your head?
Do you see
a
silent
movie ~ Sharon Creech

I wondered If things that might seem frightening could lose their hold over you. I wondered If we find the people we need when we need them. I wondered If we attract our future by some sort of invisible force, or If we are drawn to it by a similar force. I felt I was turning a corner and that change was afoot. ~ Sharon Creech

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old. ~ Sharon Creech

I don't care if the whole town comes, as long as you come, Bailey boy. ~ Sharon Creech

But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us to be right there, right then. I thought about the few thing we thought we knew and the billions of things we couldn't know, all spinning, whirling our there somewhere. ~ Sharon Creech

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

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. ~ Sharon Creech

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

She said that room up there is a remembering room
and when she is up there remembering
all those things fill up the room
and when the room is too full
they fly out the window. ~ Sharon Creech

And when she goes home,' Uncle Max said, 'to the place and the people she has romanticized all these months, she'll see that it isn't all she imagined. She'll be different, but they'll all expect her to be the same. ~ Sharon Creech

Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, "That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield. ~ Sharon Creech

A library is the door to many lives. ~ Sharon Creech

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

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too. ~ Sharon Creech

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago. ~ Sharon Creech

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. ~ Sharon Creech

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying. ~ Sharon Creech

If you had a script for your life, Leo thinks, you could look ahead to what would come next. You could see what is going to happen to you. You could read all the thousands and millions of words you will say. You will never again have to wonder What should I say or do? because it will all be written there for you. You could know what dumb things you will do. You could find out if you ever will do anything that isn't dumb. But then, what if your script was dull, if you never got to do anything exciting? Or what if something awful was going to happen to you? What if your script was very, very short? ~ Sharon Creech

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

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness. ~ Sharon Creech

It was as if I were carrying around all the places I'd ever lived, and nothing I was seeing was just what it was - it was all of the places, all smooshed together. My bubble was fairly bursting by the time I got home, what with all that stuff crammed in there. ~ Sharon Creech

I didn't have to go. I could fade into the crowd, be pushed along through the tunnel, into the city. I could roll along in my bubble ball.
I was used to moving, used to packing up and following along like a robot, but I was tired of it. I wanted to stop moving and I wanted to be somewhere and stay somewhere and I wanted my family. ~ Sharon Creech

Zola smills, smuggles, what is that word? What is it, that word for the happy teeth?? ~ Sharon Creech

You never know the worth of water until the well is dry. ~ Sharon Creech

Too soon the two weeks were over and we were back in Lugano, and there we learned about Disaster.
We weren't completely ignorant. We knew about disaster from our previous schools and previous lives. We'd had access to televisions and newspapers. But the return to Lugano marked the beginning of Global Awareness Month, and in each of our classes, we talked about disaster: disaster man-made and natural. We talked about ozone depletion and the extinction of species and depleted rain forests and war and poverty and AIDS. We talked about refugees and slaughter and famine.
We were in the middle school and were getting, according to Uncle Max, a diluted version of what the upper-schoolers were facing. An Iraqi boy from the upper school came to our history class and talked about what it felt like when the Americans bombed his country. Keisuke talked about how he felt responsible for World War II, and a German student said she felt the same.
We got into heated discussions over the neglect of infant females in some cultures, and horrific cases of child abuse worldwide. We fasted one day each week to raise our consciousness about hunger, and we sent money and canned goods and clothing to charities.
In one class, after we watched a movie about traumas in Rwanda, and a Rwandan student told us about seeing his mother killed, Mari threw up. We were all having nightmares.
At home, Aunt Sandy pleaded with Uncle Max. "This is too much!" she said. "You can't dump all the ~ Sharon Creech

I love the way that each book - any book - is its own journey. You open it, and off you go ... . ~ Sharon Creech

Your name makes a statement about you. It describes not only who you are but who you might be. ~ Sharon Creech

My father once said I was as gullible as a fish. I thought he said edible. I thought he meant I was tasty. The ~ Sharon Creech

I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice. ~ Sharon Creech

Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel. ~ Sharon Creech

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills. ~ Sharon Creech

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. ~ Sharon Creech

Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn't be able to see the itty-bitty people racing around worrying you wouldn't see the barn falling in or the cow stuck in the pond; you wouldn't see the mean Granger kids squirting mustard on your white dress. You would see the most beautiful blue oceans and green lands, and the whole earth would look like a giant blue-and-green marble floating in the sky. Your worries would seem so small, maybe invisible. ~ Sharon Creech

I had not said anything about what had happened the day before - about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one. ~ Sharon Creech

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours. ~ Sharon Creech

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute. ~ Sharon Creech

He says he is starting a school here, and not just any school, but "the best of the best." He tells Signora Divino, his neighbor, "We will bring all the children from all over the world and we will live in harmony!" Is he kidding? ~ Sharon Creech

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

Am I supposed to do something
important?
It doesn't seem enough
to merely take up space
on this planet
in this country
in this state
in this town
in this family. ~ Sharon Creech

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

I cannot control who was going to come, and who was going to go, and who will stay my buddy, my pal, and who'll find me enchanting, and oddly I feel relieved. ~ Sharon Creech

Your challenges have been designed especially for you. ~ Sharon Pearson

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again. ~ Sharon Salzberg

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty
just a great magician. ~ Sharon Stone

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Several performers have told me that they do the following brief lovingkindness meditation if they have stage fright: Standing in front of an audience, before they start acting, playing music, or reciting a poem, they send out wishes for the well-being of everyone in the room. 'When I do that,' one singer told me, 'I no longer have a sense of the audience as a group of hostile people out there waiting to judge me. I feel, okay, here we all are together. ~ Sharon Salzberg

If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Your maman was in my room last night."

"And I was not." His tone was glum. ~ Sharon Cameron

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other. ~ Sharon Salzberg

There are many ways to get to the top of the mountain. The obvious path may not necessarily be the right path for you. ~ Sharon L. Norris

Ahh," Sharon said airily from the corner, "the sweet lies lovers tell ... ~ Ransom Riggs

Sometimes I can almost see around our heads,
like gnats around a streetlight in summer,
The children we could have,
The glimmer of them. ~ Sharon Olds

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~ Sharon Gannon

Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose. ~ Sharon Gannon

Conformity is deformity ~ Sharon Desruisseaux

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them. ~ Sharon Salzberg

You cannot discover new oceans until you are willing to lose sight of the shore. ~ Sharon Leaf

Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases. ~ Sharon Salzberg

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on. ~ Sharon Salzberg

It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge. ~ Sharon Gannon

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns
of fear & jealousy. ~ Sharon Salzberg

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience. ~ Sharon Weil

Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future. ~ Alethea Kontis

going, but that was OK. Good, honest hard work: burying the dead. Took an hour to dig a hole ~ Sharon Jones

I always sleep well, dearest, except for when your hot body smothers me completely!"
Darcy grinned. "Forgive me. Even sub- consciously I must be near you. I have no control over the matter. Tea and a scone?"
"Yes, please." She sat, tucking her feet under her. "No need to apologize, William. I simply elbow you hard and you roll away, temporarily at least. Come winter you can re- pay the treatment when I slip my frozen feet between your thighs. ~ Sharon Lathan

Have you ever thought, " he said after a moment, "that perhaps...all of this could have happened before? That the people of the Time Before, no matter how weak we think them, that they were only making the mistakes of their ancesters and that we, in turn, are only making the same mistakes as them? Technology or no? That the time changes but people do not, and so we are never really moving forward, only around a bend? That the world only ever turns in circles. do you think that could be so? ~ Sharon Cameron

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line. ~ Sharon Weil

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era. ~ Mahmoud Abbas

She was smiling as she leaned toward Reed, who stooped down to put his lips against her ear. He would tell her that he wanted to travel to Merendon, or Marring Cross or Cranfield, someplace far away and exotic. He was the sort of man whose wish altered every year.
He said in a voice that only she could hear: "I wish you were not my sister."
She pulled back and stared up at him. He smiled, his face just faintly touched with sadness, and tossed his true-love into the fire. ~ Sharon Shinn

In a contest of wills between John and his mother, he did not think John would prevail, indeed he hoped he would not. But he did not care to be a witness to their confrontation; he suspected Eleanor's methods would be neither maternal nor merciful. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries. ~ Sharon Kay Penman