Cynthia Lord Quotes
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Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another.
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Touch blue and your wish will come true.
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Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.
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Maybe when we see things all the time, we stop really looking at them. And it takes an artist, someone who can look past the ordinariness, to remind us how special they really are - Lily
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I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared. - Lily
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As we continued upward, I thought about how adults sometimes complain that kids only think about ourselves, but it's not true. We care a lot about other people, but most times, we don't have the power to change things for them.
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Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.
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But that's the one thing about being blind. What you look like doesn't matter to Lucky. He sees you with his heart -Lily
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To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.
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Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.
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You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.
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I imagined Dad beside me: “It’s pretty,” he’d say. “But pretty isn’t enough for a great photograph. Show me why I care. What’s the story?
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...I wasn't sure if we'd ever be the same kind of friends we'd been when we were little. Maybe being two peas in a pod was over, but maybe we could be more like two wild blueberries: two of a kind, but different, too. -Lily
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Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David’d wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he’d say, “Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?
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I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself -Salma
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It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.
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Yeah, but 'beyond reach' means you want to reach something. It's more than far away; there's an absence. Missing something you can't have.
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Even half a chance beats none.
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One thing I’d learned about moving was that once you were there, it was better to just look ahead. Because even if you went back to visit the places and people you left behind, it was never the same - except in photos.
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Cathrine pretty today. I nod, yes it's a very pretty day. Jason touches my arm. Cathrine pretty.
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If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, “Sorry, gotta go!
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Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.
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At the beginning of summer it always feels like there's so much time ahead: whole empty calendar pages of sunshine, warm sea breezes, midnight thunderstorms, and running barefoot in the grass. Enough afternoons to do every single thing you wanted to do and even some days left over to do nothing at all. But somehow summer fills up and flies by -Lily
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Low tide smells mud-black and tangy, but high tide smells clean and salty.