130 Quotes by Wendy Mass

Well, I’m not as lucky as you to have this every day.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you’re doing it.

I reach under Mongo, and my hand lands on something squishy. I grab hold of it, and pull out an orange bunny Peep from a long ago Easter. Even I wouldn’t eat it now. The scary thing is, it still looks perfectly fine. Dusty, but fine. I think Dr. Grady was wrong. At the end of the world will be bacteria, cockroaches, and Peeps.

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was ‘Life is short; eat dessert first.’ How can I argue with that?

Now that Connor’s gotten a job helping Tara’s uncle, an inventor, he gets to keep all of Mr. St. Claire’s old tools. I think our parents should focus less on me, and pay more attention to the fact that Connor has dismantled most of the electronic devices in our house, our old lawn mower, and basically any object that has more than one part.

It’s not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.

The people on the train with me don’t know it, but in my head I’m dancing.