Friendship List #2 Quotes

“I’m your BFF. BFFs are for bragging.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“Like when you buy a picture frame, and there’s that slim sheet of plastic you have to peel off before you can use it. We’re all covered in a slim piece of sadness plastic.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“Our eyes can do so much better than a camera.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“Life is tricky. We have to muddle through the hard spots, hoping that they will pass quickly and that we will gain some understanding and perspective, and be better equipped to handle them the next time they come around. And then we strive as best we can to appreciate the great times while we are living them.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“I think when we plan too much, we kind of miss the moment. And then we freak out when things don’t go exactly the way we planned them. Because there’s literally no way for anything to ever go exactly as we plan it. It’s just not possible.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“think we pretty much do everything in life different, and that’s why we’re BFFs. We balance each other out, and we have different ideas and processes and stuff.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“Breathe in. Breathe out.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“I think when we plan too much, we kind of miss the moment. And then we freak out when things don’t”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“need to figure out what those things are, what I want them to be.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“Standing on the parted shores, we still believe what we were taught before ever we stood at Sinai’s foot; that wherever we go, it is eternally Egypt; that there is a better place, a promised land; that the winding way to that promise passes through the wilderness. That there is no way to get from here to there except by joining hands, marching together.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“mac and cheese.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“bat mitzvah.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“does!” “They do?” M.W. asks. “I don’t remember last year.” “Me either,” I whisper”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE Kaylan fight,”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“times in life where faith is really super important,”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“Arianna Nodberg! I lost your phone number and they haven’t sent the roster out yet! But then I remembered when you gave me your email and I realized I could email you! I hope you get this. How’s life @ home? What’s new? All is well here. We’re going to Maine for a few days, and we all have to go screen-free the whole time (my mom’s rule). So if I don’t write back, don’t think I’m ignoring you. I’m not! Peace!”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13

“hope at some point in everyone’s life they get to be a member of something—even if it’s something they started themselves, a made-up club or whatever.”
― Lisa Greenwald, Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13