Cynthia Lord Quotes
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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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Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.
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Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.
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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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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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It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.
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I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all -Salma
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All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy. I should've known, though. Real truth is never easy -Lily
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It must take some courage to fly, to trust the wind to hold you as it lifts you away from all you've ever known. To know inside that you're heading where you're meant to go - even if you've never been there before. And that 'I hope so' will be enough to get you there.
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Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
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Good-bye isn't the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it's simply time to go.
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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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How else can hopes go but up?
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Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
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One thing I know about being in a three-way friendship is that you'd better not let the other two spend too much time without you, or it turns into a two-way friendship, minus you.
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
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Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.
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Just this once, let it be easy.
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Dogs always forgive you when they know you're sorry. And so do star friends -Lily
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It's hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they're a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would've been easier if you'd never had it at all.
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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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If you want to get away with something, don’t announce it first.
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It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different - Salma
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Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.