Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.

Don't stop believing in miracles.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.

Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.

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

Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.

He taught me to trust in tomorrow.

Trust in tomorrow...Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow. —Alex Morales to Miranda Evans

...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.