Holly Goldberg Sloan Quotes

But I think it's not bad to have a blowup with someone you really care about. Once that happens, you can be even closer. Maybe because sharing bad things as well as good things means you're in it for real. That's what being honest with someone does." -Avery (Night Owl)

And endings are always the beginnings of something else.

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them into what is always a one-of-a-kind creation.

But being a brother or a sister (if you are lucky enough) is the role of a lifetime.

Who wants a seat at my pity party?

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

You and I are now the Romeo and Juliet of friendships. Only we're the Juliet and Juliet.

No one's supposed to tell anyone, "You two shouldn't love each other." But maybe, also, no one's supposed to tell anyone, "You two should love each other.

They are living, growing, reproducing, pushing and pulling in the ground all around us at all times. We accept that without even noticing. Open your eyes, people. This is amazing. If plants made sounds, it would all be different. But they communicate with color and shape and size and texture. They don't meow or bark or tweet. We think they don't have eyes, but they see the angle of the sun and the rise of the moon. They don't just feel the wind; they change directions because of it.

If your lost you might need to swim against the tide

A guy named Otto Sayas - I would give anything to have a name that was a palindrome - knocks

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective.
I'm stardust.
I'm golden brown.
I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

She said that I was highly gifted.
Are people lowly gifted?
Or medium gifted?
Or just gifted? It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they're on cleaning products.
In my opinion, it's not really a great idea to see people as just one thing.

Teenage boys are so easily amused.

I am a shadow.
I no longer dream in color.
I don't count by 7s.
Because in this new world I don't count.

It was possible that he was making some progress in his mental health condition by seeing me.

Plants (like people) thrive when there is balance.

She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential

It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.

but I cannot find my voice to do anything about these future calamities, because it is someone's idea of inspirational to release the bobbing weapons.

Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.

Or is life so filled with random action that the very notion of caution is futile?

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

colored pencils to fill in blank spaces. Being

A leader organizes people whether they know it or not.

Maybe that happens when you've been through a lot. all of your edges are worn off, like sea glass. either that, or you shatter.

I think it's important to get pictures of things on your head. Even if they are wrong. And they pretty much always are.

She is like me.
Silent.
I admire that in a person. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence.
Introspection requires you to think and analyze.
It's hard to do that when you are blabbing away.

I don't eat the sandwich that Mom made for me, but luckily Randy finishes his and is happy to take mine, too, so I won't get yelled at for wasting food. There is nothing worse in my mom's eyes.

I guess murder would be worse, but I think she believes the first step toward a violent life is being a food-waster.

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

I don't know why they try to sell smaller candy bars as being more fun than the bigger ones. That's just a lie" -Bett (Dogfish)

(Fishing) is as boring as boring gets. And then when it's finally not boring and you have a fish on the line it turns into a crime scene with a wooden club and a crazy amount of hitting.

They speak to me, not in words, but in action.
They tell me that life goes on.

I made a note to talk to him about soft drinks. Those beverages are not healthy.

from counting by 7s (not listed in drop-down)

I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.

Life, I now realize, is just one big trek across a minefield and you never know which step is going to blow you up.

It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they are on cleaning products.

It would be sad to be hired as a caregiver and then die before the person you were looking after. You wouldn't be able to let people know you did a good job.

Gay people having families doesn't seem like something anyone should have to shout about anymore. Some people are a lot more interested in raising kids than other people. From what I can see, the person most interested usually does the best job" -Bett

From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy.
That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.

But I'm thinking real problems are the ones you can't see coming. Maybe that's why they're real problems" -Avery (Night Owl)

I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.

I really like reading stories with an unreliable narrator, because the person telling you what happened can't be trusted with the facts and you have to figure it out.
Maybe when it's your own story, you're always going to be an unreliable narrator" -Avery (Night Owl)

have seen trees that survive fire. Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. But hidden under that skeleton is a force that sends a single shoot of green out into the world. Maybe

I will see only what I want to see.
It's possible that's how people get through crisis.
The world where we live is so much in our head.

My dad takes most of the pictures in our family, and he makes scrapbooks. This means he gets to figure out what's important for us to remember...
I guess my mom could make a scrapbook, but she doesn't. And I could do it and so could my brothers, but then we would need extra pictures. Plus we're just kids and we don't have time for that.
I know the scrapbooks we'd make would be different from Dad's.
But the person who does the work gets to write the history.

The two people I need to get in touch with, the two people who most need to hear this most horrible news, are not here

At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

I usually found so-called "small talk" boring. I like "large talk", which is more about theories and concepts, mixed with facts and known quantities.

The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.
Even free things are never free.
The burden of ownership means everything has a price.

Thanks, Mom. Thanks for making me try out for this play.'

I think I might have just made being a mother totally worthwhile for her.

I will try to never forget her face...Mom's got tears in her eyes and she's smiling. It's an amazing look.

I have to remember how powerful it can be to say thank you.

Especially to the people you live with.

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

It was ironic that the kids who didn't go to school would be punished with the threat of being kicked out.

The girl next to me starts to cry when she sees the sprinkles.
I'm wondering if she's worried about the long-term side effects of consuming artificial food coloring.
It's a valid concern.

Appleblossom can't believe the taste of the dark square. Is tehre a way to describe this morsel of goodness? It is so sweet adn smooth. It makes a green snail seem like an old pinecone seed, and every possum knows that a green snail is fantastic eating.