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Walk Two Moons

Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech

Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech, published by HarperCollins in 1994 and winner of the 1995 Newbery Medal. The novel was originally intended as a follow-up to Creech's previous novel Absolutely Normal Chaos; but, the idea was changed after she began writing it.

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“On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”

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“You never know the worth of water until the well is dry.”

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“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”

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“In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”

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“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”

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“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

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

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