"I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew and Jennie would flinch and blush. Love is this great thing that most songs and books and poems and lives are all about. So the minute we actually think there might be love around, we start laughing and pretending and hiding from it."
— Caroline B. Cooney (Girl Who Invented Romance)

"When in doubt, shut up."
— Caroline B. Cooney

"Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic."
— Caroline B. Cooney (Wanted!)

"People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them. "
— Caroline B. Cooney (Both Sides of Time)

"Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you."
— Caroline B. Cooney (Out of Time)

"What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task."
— Caroline B. Cooney (Out of Time)

"Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary.

It Mattered."
— Caroline B. Cooney