25 Quotes by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

As kids, our stock answer to most every question was nothing. What did you do at school today? Nothing. What's new? Nothing. Then, somewhere on the way to adulthood, we each took a 180-degree turn. We cashed in our nothing for busy.

There are proponents of New Year's Eve, and there are proponents of regular Tuesday nights. I am one of the latter, much happier residing in the wake of the mundane.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

I’m turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I’m turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I’m serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

It often feels like I’m not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.