Caroline B. Cooney > Quotes

“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

“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

“But I found my family.
I found the right thing to do.
I found the way home.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, What Janie Found

“Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Wanted!

“Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, What Janie Found

“I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger."
Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries.
"And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake."
Annie remained unthrilled.
"Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac."
Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Both Sides of Time

“She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, The Face on the Milk Carton

“You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us."
"I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren."
"Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, What Janie Found

“Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Both Sides of Time

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

It Mattered.”
― Caroline B. Cooney

“She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of hate.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Burning Up

“He felt blind and deaf, the way he did when he was close to a good idea but couldn't tap into it. He'd told Lizzie about that feeling once, and Lizzie had said, "That just means you aren't very smart, Reeve. Smart people have good ideas without having to be blind and deaf first.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, What Janie Found

“Who was Florinda, and why did she faint so often that she needed a special couch on which to do it?”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Both Sides 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

“wanted is a good action book”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Wanted!

“But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Fatal Bargain