The Tiny Journalist Quotes

“Fresh as a new notebook — that's how anyone wanted to live.

Hopeful as a pencil sharpened,
clear as one beam of light landing on the table's far side.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny Journalist

“To forgive ourselves for what we didn't do
Replay a scene over and over in mind
Change it change
Apologizing to our own story handful of soil
I could have planted something better here

To walk without remembering another walk
To wash off the hoped of a darkened day
Make a new one”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny Journalist

“You are the witness, on-the-scene, microphone
in hand. You stand on the road to everywhere,
askng, What is this? What next?”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny Journalist

“What happens to Peace when people fight?
(She hides her face.)
What does she dream of?
(Better people.)
Does she ever give up?”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny Journalist

“I thought about enduring. Maybe losers
get to be taken care of!
The truth is we were so wronged and so forgotten
we had to become heroes to survive at all.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny Journalist

“Silence waits
for truth to break it”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tiny Journalist