7 Quotes & Sayings By Sara Pennypacker

Sara Pennypacker is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Summer I Turned Pretty, and her middle grade novels My Brother's Keeper and We're Still Here. Her books have been on the New York Times Bestseller List for more than a year and have won numerous awards, including the 2011 Cybils Award for Best Middle Grade book. She lives in New York City with her family.

The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see...
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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
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He could offer only withness, but nothing else was asked. Sara Pennypacker
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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
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Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace. Sara Pennypacker
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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
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Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution. Sara Pennypacker