Quotes from Sara Pennypacker

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

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.

I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.

Sometimes the apple rolls very far from the tree.

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.

no matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again.

We all own a beast called anger. It can serve us: many good things come of anger at bad things; many unjust things are made just. But first we all have to figure out how to civilize it.

So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? They're the same thing, Peter said, the answer sudden and sure, although a surprise to him.

you can acheive if you believe

You going back for your home or for your pet?" "They're the same thing

Do you think anyone in the history of this world ever set out to fight for the wrong side?

Oneness is always growing in the world, boy. Two but not two. It's always there, connecting its roots, humming. I can't be part of it--that's the price I pay for taking myself away. But you can be. You can vibrate with its heartbeat. You may be on your own. But you won't be alone.

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?

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

but distrust is no match for kindness administered consistently and unmeasured, especially in creatures new to the world.

It always seemed like a snake to him, his anxiety. Waiting just out of sight, ready to slither up his spine, hissing its familiar taunt: "You aren't where you should be. Something bad is going to happen because you aren't where you should be.

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

Peter shifted his backpack and crutches. He took a step toward the bus. Then he turned back. I'm family? That's as true a thing as I've ever known. Now get on that bus.

This war that is coming—are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax

what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.

If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.

It was a valuable thing, he suddenly realized, to have someone you could count on for honesty.

Vola: So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? Peter: They're the same thing.

Pax? That's his name? It means 'peace,' you know." Peter knew that—lots of people had told him. "But