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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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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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 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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Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.
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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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Low tide smells mud-black and tangy, but high tide smells clean and salty.
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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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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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You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.
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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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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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Even half a chance beats none.
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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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Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.
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Looking at the poster, I thought, Maybe we can't solve every big problem, but we can try to solve the ones we can.
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Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!
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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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Oh, people will think what they think!...Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who 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 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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Cathrine pretty today. I nod, yes it's a very pretty day. Jason touches my arm. Cathrine pretty.