19 Quotes by Paul Zindel

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it’s necessary. I have to tell stories because that’s the way the wiring went in.

And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.

She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn’t bother me underneath?

Be yourself! Be individualistic!′ he called out after me. ‘But for God’s sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell?

If you leave me, I’ll want to die. Love, Elizabeth Carstensen.

I find everything demoralizing,′ Dennis said.

Dennis had just kissed her once, and she was screaming for a hamburger.

He was practically pushing the hot dogs down his throat.