Francine Pascal Quotes
Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
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.
It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.
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.
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.
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.
Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.
She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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.
Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.
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.
Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht...
I just can’t wait to get out of Sweet Valley, ' Jessica explained. 'I feel like I’ve been dancing with the same ten cute guys my whole life.
How inappropriate, ’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s going to do all night?
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.
In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.
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.