"Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem."
— The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, By Ann Brashares

"What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions."
— Ann Brashares

" Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
-Tibby Tomko-Rollins"
— Ann Brashares (Girls in Pants)

"Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

"She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?"
— Ann Brashares (The Second Summer of the Sisterhood)

"Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended. "
— Ann Brashares (Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood)

"There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't."
— Ann Brashares (The Second Summer of the Sisterhood)

"Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. "
— Ann Brashares

"Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

"She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination."
— Ann Brashares

"She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were. "
— Ann Brashares

"Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them."
— Ann Brashares (Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood)

""So often this summer I keep thinking: I know I'm holding back. I know I'm waiting. I know I'm afraid to go forward. But I don't know how to get there from here."
He was quiet, so she kept going. "Sometimes I see it as a tricky mountain pass between two valleys. Other times, it's like perilous straits connecting two lands. Partly it's the fear of the trip itself, I think, but partly it's the fear that I won't be able to get back. I'll turn around and the clouds will have settled over the mountaintop. Or the waters will have risen and shifted, and there will be no way home."
Paul nodded. He took her hand again, which she discovered she appreciated.
"But that's not even the real fear."
He gave her an odd smile. Short on mirth but affectionate. "What's the real fear?"
"The real fear is that I won't want to go home." "
— Ann Brashares

"Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back.
She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better"
— Ann Brashares

"Live, laugh, love.

When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell"
— Ann Brashares (Girls in Pants)

"Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!"
— Hilary McKay (Saffy's Angel)

"He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop.

But at least he will have me to look out for him."
— Hilary McKay (Forever Rose)

"Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
Nobody helps when I get into a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
So, if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you NOBODY is!
But yesterday night I got quite a scare
I woke up and Nobody just WASN'T there!
I called out and reached for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands,
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found SOMEBODY each place that I looked.
I seached till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it-
NOBODY'S GONE!!"
— Shel Silverstein

"I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins. "
— Shel Silverstein

"...I am writing these poems from inside a lion..."
— Shel Silverstein

"'why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
'Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?
Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle?
Why do you scream when I do what I did?
Im a kid.'"
— Shel Silverstein (Falling Up)

"THE BAGPIPE WHO DIDN'T SAY NO
It was nine o'clock at midnight at a quarter after three
When a turtle met a bagpipe on the shoreside by the sea,
And the turtle said, "My dearie,
May I sit with you? I'm weary."
And the bagpipe didn't say no.
Said the turtle to the bagpipe, "I have walked this lonely shore,
I have talked to waves and pebbles--but I've never loved before.
Will you marry me today, dear?
Is it 'No' you're going to say dear?"
But the bagpipe didn't say no.

Said the turtle to his darling, "Please excuse me if I stare,
But you have the plaidest skin, dear,
And you have the strangest hair.
If I begged you pretty please, love,
Could I give you just one squeeze, love?"
And the bagpipe didn't say no.

Said the turtle to the bagpipe, "Ah, you love me. Then confess!
Let me whisper in your dainty ear and hold you to my chest."
And he cuddled her and teased her
And so lovingly he squeezed her.
And the bagpipe said, "Aaooga."

Said the turtle to the bagpipe, "Did you honk or bray or neigh?
For 'Aaooga' when your kissed is such a heartless thing to say.
Is it that I have offended?
Is it that our love is ended?"
And the bagpipe didn't say no.

Said the turtle to the bagpipe, "Shall i leave you, darling wife?
Shall i waddle off to Woedom? Shall i crawl out of your life?
Shall I move, depart and go, dear--
Oh, I beg you tell me 'No' dear!"
But the bagpipe didn't say no.

So the turtle crept off crying and he ne'er came back no more,
And he left the bagpipe lying on that smooth and sandy shore.
And some night when tide is low there,
Just walk up and say, "Hello, there,"
And politely ask the bagpipe if this story's really so.
I assure you, darling children, the bagpipe won't say "No."

"
— Shel Silverstein

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

"The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.'
"
— Shel Silverstein (Batty)

""When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?"
"
— Shel Silverstein

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

"I do not like green eggs and ham!!"
— Dr. Suess

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."
— Dr. Suess

"I said what I meant, and I meant what I said. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
— Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)

"Day
Play
We play all day.
Night
Fight
We fight all night."
— Dr. Suess

"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, is it not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end?"
— Stephenie Meyer

"It was spring break in Forks again. When I woke up Monday morning,I lay in bed a few seconds absorbing that."
— Stephenie Meyer

"Renesmee touched him again.
"No, I don't care if you bite Jacob. That's fine."
Jacob chuckled."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"You know things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Unable to help my reaction entirely, I snarled under my breath.
"Oooo, scary," Emmett laughed."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"A gift? Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn't realized that Edward's extreme generosity was a learned behavior."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Seth, are you gonna get mad at me if I kill your sister?"
He pretended to think about it for a minute. "Well...yeah, probably."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Okay, Emmett. I win, and you cannot say one more word about my sex life to anyone, not even Rose. No allusions, no innuendos--no nothing."
His eyes narrowed. "Deal. I win, and it's going to get a lot worse."
He heard my breath stop and grinned evilly. There was no hint of bluff in his eyes.
"You gonna back down so easy, little sister?" Emmett taunted. Not much wild about you,is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch." He laughed. "Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Alice opened the door for me before I could walk in.
She nodded. "Hey, wolf."
"Hey, shortie."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"My stomach growled, and he laughed. "Breakfast time for the human?" he asked.
"Please."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"He's brave. Brave as you are. Didn't pass out or throw up or anything. I gotta say, I was impressed. You should've seen his face when I started taking my clothes off, though. Priceless," Jacob chortled."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"You're not planning on surviving this human," I stated dully.
"No. I'm not stupid." She met my stare then. "I guess you probably have your own opinion on that point, though."
"Emergency vampirization," I mumbled."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly.
"No! Of course not."
"No, not really? You really didn't attack him?"
"Emmett!" I protested.
"Aw, what a waste," Emmett groaned. "And here you're probably the one person who could take him--since he can't get in your head to cheat--and you had a perfect excuse, too." He sighed. "I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage."
I glared at him frostily. "I would never."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"The phone kept ringing. I wished Edward would answer it--I was having a moment. Possibly the biggest of my life."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"I like fiction books so if you like non-fiction your in the wrong place."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Jacob grinned. "Everything's going to be great, Charlie. Just try to not believe anything you see."
My dad mumbled something unintelligible.
"Woo! Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Hey I took her food before I ate anything," he defended himself. "She said she's rather eat roadkill, but I bet she caves. These cinnamon rolls..." He seemed at a loss for words."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

""Do you want to swim with the dolphins this afternoon--burn of the calories?" he asked.
"Maybe later. I had another idea for burning calories."
"And what was that?"
"Well, there's an awful lot of headboard left--" "
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)