7 Quotes & Sayings By Kaye Gibbons

Kaye Gibbons is a best-selling, award-winning author of more than eighty books for children and teens. Her novels have won national awards including the National Jewish Book Award, the California Young Readers Medal, the ARSC Young Adult Book Award, the "Best Book of the Year" in The Horn Book Magazine, and the ALA Notable Children's Books. Her books have been translated into Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Czechoslovakian, Polish, French and Russian. Kaye was born in New York City and currently lives in Westport with her husband and two sons.

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In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done…. Kaye Gibbons
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Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society. Kaye Gibbons
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That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so? . Kaye Gibbons
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But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun. Kaye Gibbons
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Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least. Kaye Gibbons
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Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody. Kaye Gibbons