Sara Pennypacker Quotes

The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.

~ Sara Pennypacker

He could offer only withness, but nothing else was asked.

~ Sara Pennypacker

Oh, let me tell you, feelings are all dangerous. Love, hope... Ha! Hope! You talk about dangerous, eh? No, you can't avoid any of them. We all own a beast called anger. It can serve us: many good things come out of anger at bad things; many unjust things are made just. But first we all have to figure out how to civilize it.

~ Sara Pennypacker

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.

~ Sara Pennypacker

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

~ Sara Pennypacker

Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution.

~ Sara Pennypacker