13 and Counting Quotes

“You’re so weird, Kay. But I love you so much.” “Right back atcha.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

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― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“Just because you’re doing what feels right to you, you think everyone automatically has to like it. That’s not true.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“why do people say ‘just be yourself’ like it’s the easiest thing ever? It’s totally not.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“You’re doing it because it feels right, but that doesn’t mean everyone’s just gonna love it just because it feels right to you.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“Being yourself should be the easiest thing in the world because you’re literally, like, being yourself.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“But we don’t become different. We change, that’s true. But deep down, we’re still the same people we’ve always been.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“It’s so important to be seen. I don’t think we even realize it all the time, or even realize it until it happens, but then when we are recognized and appreciated, we realize how much we’ve needed it all along.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“forty-five-year-old dad of three.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“You’re the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we’d know each other a long time.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“But being the oldest, it’s like, well, of course Ari can handle it. I’m like a miniature grown-up. And I don’t know if I want to be that. No one asked me if I wanted to. It shouldn’t be automatic that the older kid has to shoulder all the heavy stuff and the younger kid just gets to skateboard through life, covered head to toe in helmets and knee pads and elbow pads.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“Only a woman would be able to handle listening to so many people’s problems all at the same time.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“I just don’t need so much stuff.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“We finished seventh grade. We finished our third list.”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting

“New Ari & Kaylan Friendship List Learn to ride a unicycle Start a movement Figure out how we feel about God Spend more time with Bubbie and Zeyda Perfect the art of persuasion, especially with Kaylan’s mom Train for and run a race Come up with lots of fruit-infused water varieties”
― Lisa Greenwald, 13 and Counting