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Clare Vanderpool quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: b. 1965

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Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.304, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Dream, Weight, Crushed

quote sometimes it s best not to see your whole path laid out before you let life surprise clare vanderpool Quotes

They call themselves the Ku Klux Klan and they hate pretty much everyone who isn't like them. If you have the wrong color, religion, or birthplace, they don't like you. Around here it's mostly foreigners they hate.

Topics: Hate, Color, Ku Klux Klan, Birthplace

This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing-but just barely.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.141, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Loss, Land, Soul, Weathered

He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this need to hold on. To let let go of his pain. It had become such a part of him. Who would he be without it? The thought frightened him. So he wandered the halls of the catacombs like the other souls who were half-dead and half-alive.

Topics: Letting Go, Pain, Voice, Unable To Let Go

Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one, good. If you don't...that is even better. That mean you come out and get to try all over again.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.175, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Mean, Swimming, Fishing, Fly Fishing

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.31, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Miracle, Coincidence

Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.

Topics: Home, Mean, Knowing, Way Back Home, Finding Your Way

Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you...There are more stars out there than just the ones with names. And they're all beautiful.

Topics: Beautiful, Stars, Names

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.154, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Suffering, Looks, Reason

...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.113, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Encounters, Persons

If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Kindness, Stories, Pay

Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.74, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Memories, Sunshine, Pleasant

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.85, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Mean, Ku Klux Klan, White

Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.

source: - Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Topics: Lonely, Hurt, Tired

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