Sometimes you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Between Madison and Palmetto

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About Jacqueline Woodson

Portrait of Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate...

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I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Maizon at Blue Hill

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Locomotion

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Between Madison and Palmetto

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Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it’s becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Peace, Locomotion

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

—Iris Murdoch

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Sometimes it's better not to look back.

—Ransom Riggs in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

—William Lyon Phelps

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Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew.

—Alice Miller

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