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Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? 'Sister Sonja often asked me, as though to understand the depth and breadth of human suffering would be enough to pull me outside of my own.Jacqueline Woodson
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Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?Jacqueline Woodson
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I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.Jacqueline Woodson
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Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone –adults promising us their own failed future.Jacqueline Woodson
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I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone?Jacqueline Woodson
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Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes.Jacqueline Woodson
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I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame–of everything.Jacqueline Woodson
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At the day's end, a writer lives alone with her story, wrestling with characters and settings, and the way light filters into and out of a scene. The deeper messages often escape her. Sometimes I take for granted the journey through the telling. At other times I curse the muse's power. But through it all, I live each day in deep gratitude.Jacqueline Woodson