Walk Two Moons (Trophy Newbery) (Sharon Creech)

Read in parallel with Laura. Great book. I didn't expect the ending.

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Quotes:

Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.

Margaret Cadaver.

Salamanca Tree Hiddle.

Phoebe Winterbottom

“Oh!” I thought. “I am happy at this moment in time.”

It is surprising all the things you remember just by eating a blackberry pie.

I said to myself, “Salamanca Tree Hiddle, you can be happy without her.” It seemed a mean thought and I was sorry for it, but it felt true.

Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.

Coeur d’Alene,

Everyone has his own agenda.

In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair. Phoebe

You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

Because of all these gifts, Zeus named her Pandora, which means ‘the gift of all.’”

That night I kept thinking about Pandora’s box. I wondered why someone would put a good thing such as Hope in a box with sickness and kidnapping and murder. It was fortunate that it was there, though.

We never know the worth of water until the well is dry.

Kissing was thumpingly complicated. Both people had to be in the same place at the same time, and both people had to remain still so that the kiss ended up in the right place. But I was relieved that my lips ended up on the cold metal locker. I could not imagine what had come over me, or what might have happened if the kiss had landed on Ben’s mouth. It was a shivery thing to consider. I made it through the rest of my classes without losing control of my lips.

In the course of a lifetime, there were some things that mattered.

It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had at first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.