Lauren Wolk Quotes & Sayings

But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them. — Lauren Wolk

At times, I was so confused that I felt like the stem of a pinwheel surrounded by whir and clatter, but through that whole unsettling time I knew that it simply would not do to hide in the barn with a book and an apple and let events plunge forward without me. — Lauren Wolk

And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret. — Lauren Wolk

I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself. — Lauren Wolk

Some of them would survive to become fruit as good as anything on earth. Others would wither on the branch, killed by frost, wasted. — Lauren Wolk

Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt. — Lauren Wolk

Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things" -Annabelle — Lauren Wolk

school wouldn't help them fight the Germans. — Lauren Wolk

I thought about how people seemed always to keep their distance. And how I always made sure to keep mine.

The schoolmaster, Mr. Henderson, had sanitized the door latch I'd touched. And Mr. Johnson, the postmaster, had wanted to sanitized my letter before he handled it. Two people slow to change. But the others?

I suppose I ought to think about them one by one. — Lauren Wolk

We spent some time like that, me asking small questions, Toby giving me longer and longer answers, until we were simply talking, Toby asking me questions, too. — Lauren Wolk

But think about how it feels when your hands are so cold they go numb. How it's only when they start to thaw out that you realize how much they hurt. — Lauren Wolk

If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could? — Lauren Wolk

All around us, birds woke up the sky. — Lauren Wolk

I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his] stories again as they wanted to be heard. — Lauren Wolk

Nothing less important in the eyes of God, Annabelle, than pretty. — Lauren Wolk

And I decided that there might be things I would never understand, no matter how hard I tried. Though try I would.

And that there would be people who would never hear my one small voice, no matter what I had to say.

But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could? (p228) — Lauren Wolk

Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake. — Lauren Wolk

We girls in the 4-H club had made a flag to hang in the church, adding a blue star every time someone from the township went off to fight. When one of them died, we changed the blue star to a gold one. Just two, so far, but I had been to their funerals, and I knew there was no "just" about it. — Lauren Wolk

Don't you understand, Crow?" he said, his voice so sad, so tender, that I couldn't breathe. "You're the one worth finding. — Lauren Wolk

The year I turned twelve, I learned that what I said and what I did mattered. So much, sometimes, that I wasn't sure I wanted such a burden. But I took it anyway, and I carried it as best I could. — Lauren Wolk

My father looked from my mother to me, his eyes full of questions. What should we do now? How are we supposed to know what to do now?

I wasn't sure, either. But I knew I couldn't spend one more minute doing nothing. I knew I couldn't grow up and live a long life with the knowledge that I had not done what I could. Right now. Before it once again made no difference. (p 256)
p265 — Lauren Wolk