“[Time comes with us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while.] Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.”

—Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly (thanks, folderolandmarginalia)

“Time comes to us softly, slowly.It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready,it moves on.”

—If you come softly by Jacqueline Woodson

“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”

—Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One

“It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that’s the way the world worked—people were born and people died, people left and people came. It was like the world was saying you can’t have everything you want at the same time.”

—Jacqueline Woodson

“You can’t always be pushing people away. Someday nobody’ll come back.”

—Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One

“Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together — make myself into one whole person like everybody else.”

—Jacqueline Woodson.

“You can’t always be pushing people away. Someday nobody’ll come back.”

The Dear One, Jacqueline Woodson

“It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that’s the way the world worked—people were born and people died, people left and people came. It was like the world was saying you can’t have everything you want at the same time.”

—Jacqueline Woodson, Lena

“It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that’s the way the world worked—people were born and people died, people left and people came. It was like the world was saying you can’t have everything you want at the same time." ”

—Jacqueline Woodson, Lena

“I knew I'd follow him anywhere. When my sister used to talk about being in love, she said it felt like someone wrapping you inside of them. And thats what I felt like now, like slowly I was being wrapped inside of him, inside his eyes, inside his voice, inside the way he talked about things.”

— Jaqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly

“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, Peace, Locomotion

“It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that’s the way the world worked—people were born and people died, people left and people came. It was like the world was saying you can’t have everything you want at the same time.”

LENA, JACQUELINE WOODSON.
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