"I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer."
- Sharon M. Draper
"Thoughts need words. Words need a voice."
"Words.I’m surrounded by thousands of words. Maybe millions. Cathedral. Mayonnaise. Pomegranate.Mississippi. Neapolitan. Hippopotamus.Silky. Terrifying. Iridescent.Tickle. Sneeze. Wish. Worry.Words hav..."
"Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands."
"Ashes don't necessarily signify an end"
"I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of."
"There is an unseen river of communication that forever flows -- dark and powerful."
"I love the smell of my mother’s hair after she washes it.I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my father’s face before he shaves.But I’ve never been able to tell them."
"Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to look ..."