Carolyn Mackler Quotes

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.

Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should

Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

I'm not saying you didn't deserve it, O." Dakota laughed. "But I'm restocking the karma bank and you're at the top of my list.

And also ... well ... i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms."
What'd they say?"
Over their dead bodies."
What did you say?"
I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

Life's a car ride ... Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

It freaks me out to stare at myself, especially my eyes, and know all those things I've been thinking inside