Francine Pascal > Quotes

“It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.”
― Francine Pascal

“She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.”
― Francine Pascal , Fearless

“Pretty people do ugly things.
It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever started to forget that ride for a second, there always seemed to be some good-looking asshole ready to remind her.”
― Francine Pascal, Twisted

“Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.”
― Francine Pascal, Sam

“As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.”
― Francine Pascal, Payback

“the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books”
― Francine Pascal

“Nature compensates for its mistakes.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.”
― Francine Pascal, The Boys of Summer

“She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he’d be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He’d lie there for a few minutes. He’d be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He’d brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park.

But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.”
― Francine Pascal, Sam

“She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.”
― Francine Pascal, Sam

“He smiled all the way to physics class. He almost laughed out loud when he passed through the door and saw her shadowy, hunched-over form casting around for a seat in the back.

She was in his class; this was excellent. Maybe she’d call him a name if he struck up another conversation. Even curse him out. That might fun. God, he’d probably earn himself a restraining order if he tried to sit next to her.

He was so tired of saccharine smiles and cloying tones of voice. People always plastered their eyes to his face for fear of looking anywhere else. He was fed up with everybody being so goddamned nice.

That’s why he’d already fallen in love with this weird, maladjusted, beautiful girl who carried a chip the size of Ohio on her shoulder. Because nobody was ever mean to the guy in the wheelchair.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“Teling a little would ultimately mean telling a lot.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“What sucked was that her room was on the fourth floor of a four-story house because she hated walking past every other room on her way in and out. She was like a latter-day Rapunzel except her hair was only a few inches below her shoulders, slightly fried, not all that blond, and furthermore, who the hell was ever going to climb up to give her a hand? The guy in the wheelchair from school?

What she — and Rapunzel, frankly — needed was a decent ladder.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“The thought of gaining weight was all she needed to lose her appetite completely. Not that Jessica – a model-slim, perfect size-six – ever had to worry about her weight.”
― Francine Pascal, Last Chance

“As the crow flies. That’s how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she’d get home? That wasn’t the point. It didn’t mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn’t stop the earth’s slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it could.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“I think I’m going to cut down on my dating,’ Annie said. ‘I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren’t always the answer.”
― Francine Pascal, Wrong Kind of Girl

“Losers with no imagination say that if you start a new school, there has to be a first day. How come they haven't figure out how to be that? Just think existentially. All you do is take what is supposed to be the first day and bury someplace in the next month. By the time you get around to it a month later, who cares?”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.”
― Francine Pascal, Power Play

“Renny was smarter and funnier and more original than they'd ever be, but he was thirteen. He was at the brutal age when many kids would sell all their uniqueness in their character for the right pair of shoes.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid’s life had been entirely guyless.”
― Francine Pascal, Model Flirt