22 Quotes by Bette Greene

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of... death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it’s only a bit of space carved out of air.

What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you’re in pain?

A person’s got to think, otherwise that person’s no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he’d know he was making a thousand children laugh.