Thirteen Quotes

“So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“You have to be nicer to me," I said.
Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?"
"You have to be nicer to me or... or..."
"Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve. Almost, but not quite.
"Or I have ti break up with you." I whispered
What was there more to say? Nothing. So I hung up.”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“...your ass is grass...”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“Sometimes, with Cinnamon, it was like she fell into this "impress the guy" mode and forgot the primary rule of friendship, which was to make your bud look good in front of her boy. Not stupid.”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“Curse false-hand-holding boys!”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual.”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“No vaginas at the dinner table!” Dad said.”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“Don't give away what you have, but don't let what you have all you ever have.”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off.”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“How many frogs would fit in lizard’s stomach?”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

“eight-o-five, Lars still wasn’t here, and Ty had switched”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen