42 Quotes by Cynthia Lord

It’s easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

Good things matter, even when they don’t last forever.

Don’t ever choose the people who don’t matter over the ones that do.

At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.

Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one “if” to another.

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.

Good-bye isn’t the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it’s simply time to go.

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.

If you can get people to care about the little things, they’ll care about the big things, too.