118 Quotes by Susan Beth Pfeffer

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it’s the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. Not to mention all those zillions of people I’ve never heard of. All those Homo sapiens and Neanderthals looked at the very same moon as me. It waxed and waned in their sky, too.

Do people ever realize how precious life is? I know I never did before. There was always time. There was always a future.

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn’t care why you were asking.

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we’re fixing it with Band-Aids.

There’s a difference between charity and love,” I said. “What we’re offering is love. Love lasts forever.

All my life I’ve been well behaved,” she said. “It’s about time I got to push people around and not apologize.

It wouldn’t be New Year’s without a resolution. I’ve resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

When I’m in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don’t know what’s going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it’s probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody’s lunch.

Lisa’s baby was due about now. I’ve decided she had it and it was a girl. I’ve named her Rachel.