Mandi > Mandi's Quotes

“In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.”
― Katherine Hannigan, Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

“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

“We shall live with what is, and hope that one of us is clever enough to think of something better. What else can we do?”
― Diane Haeger, The Secret Bride

“There's a million stories glistening in her eyes if you just have time to look.”
― Virginia Frances Schwartz, 4 Kids in 5-E and One Crazy Year

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”
― Virginia Frances Schwartz, 4 Kids in 5-E and One Crazy Year

“The teacher did say we can help one another. Cooperative learning it's called. That's where you borrow someone else's brain because yours isn't big enough.”
― Virginia Frances Schwartz, 4 Kids in 5-E and One Crazy Year

“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“He said, 'Life has hurt us again.'
A worse hurt than those hurts we have already endured?'
No,' he said, 'I suppose not.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For a second, with my bare feet on the fresh thick grass, there has not been, for any of us, even one mistake.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?”
― Clive Cussler, Shock Wave

“And for a moment, he is just a boy, and she is just a girl, and they are happy.”
― Leila Cobo, Tell Me Something True

“...she said that life was too precious to cast away; that even the foulest and meanest expression of life was precious, full of grandeur and inestimable beauty, although we are often too blind to recognize it.”
― Christi Phillips

“You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee