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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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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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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You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.
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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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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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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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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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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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"Oh, people will think what they think!” Grandma Lilah said. “Don’t ever choose the people who don’t matter over the ones who do."
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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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Even half a chance beats none.
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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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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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Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.
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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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I felt a shiver of excitement to feel the kayak cutting through the water, the whole lake open to me. The morning sun slanted gold, making the pink of my kayak stand out warm and vibrant against the dark blue water and green trees on the far side of the lake.
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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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Cathrine pretty today. I nod, yes it's a very pretty day. Jason touches my arm. Cathrine pretty.
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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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...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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It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.
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Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful