Paul Zindel Quotes

The speeches! They were filled with borrowed things--borrowed over and over again until the words were nothing more than a series of clichés.

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

There was no one else to blame anymore. No Bores or Old Ladies or Nortons, or Assassins waiting at the bridge. And there was no place to hide-no place across any river for a boatman to take us.
Our life would be what we made of it-nothing more, nothing less.
Baboons.
Baboons.
They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him.

When are you getting married?'
'After graduation, stupid.

He was practically pushing the hot dogs down his throat.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

Our life would be what we made of it
nothing more, nothing less.

Dennis had just kissed her once, and she was screaming for a hamburger.

A child's parents should be able to forbid their son or daughter from reading a book of mine or anyone else's. However, those same parents should have zero control over what everyone else's kids can read.

There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.

And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn't know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind's a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn't bother me underneath?

I find everything demoralizing,' Dennis said.

You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.

Zelda is worried about the regular death that happens when you grow too old. -Henry

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