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the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

Karen Hesse
Dream, Hard Times, Dust
Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.225, Scholastic Inc.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

Karen Hesse
Dust, Trying, Facts
Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.222, Scholastic Inc.

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

Karen Hesse
Regret, Children, Moving

I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.

Karen Hesse
Dream, Rain, Doors
Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.202, Scholastic Inc.

When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.

Karen Hesse
Dust, Going Away, One Day
Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

Karen Hesse
Hard Times, Odds, Illumination

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

Karen Hesse
Father, Dust, Young
Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.245, Scholastic Inc.

Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.

Karen Hesse
Dust, Wind, California
Karen Hesse (2012). “Out of the Dust”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to go where the field hasn't gone before. The result -very exciting children's literature and art ... exciting both for the professional and for the intended audience, the children.

Karen Hesse
Art, Children, Dust

I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.

Karen Hesse
Thinking, Rooms, Drowning
Karen Hesse (2004). “The Music of Dolphins”, p.110, Oxford University Press, USA

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