Sharon M. Draper Quotes

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.

[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding

By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.

But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

There is an unseen river of communication that forever flows -- dark and powerful.

I love the smell of my mother’s hair after she washes it.I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my father’s face before he shaves.But I’ve never been able to tell them.

Ashes don't necessarily signify an end