50 Quotes by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.

There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

That's the unforgivable sin, you know.""What is?""Refusing to forgive someone.""Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it’s Dad?” Tyler told me. “You’ll feel even worse, of course, but you’ll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does,” I said.