Dana Reinhardt Quotes

United States, Author
March 11, 1971

Dana Reinhardt is the award-winning author of the young adult novels HARMLESS, HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE and THE THINGS A BROTHER KNOWS, among others. Her books have been named to many best of the year lists, and reviewers have praised her work as “exceptional” and “funny and unforgettable.” She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two daughters.

Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

Dana Reinhardt
- Guys
- Direction
- Standing
Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

Dana Reinhardt
- Friends
- Stones
- Weigh

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

Dana Reinhardt
Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

Dana Reinhardt
- Things
- Walk
- Shame
They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

Dana Reinhardt
- Words
- Matter
- Really
When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

Dana Reinhardt
- Happy
- Something
- Anything
Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment

Dana Reinhardt
We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.

Dana Reinhardt
- Problem
- Ocean
- Lucky

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

Dana Reinhardt
- Believe
- Happen
- Seems
There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

Dana Reinhardt
- Past
- Understand
- Happened