Francine Pascal Quotes

• Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

  Francine Pascal

  Broken Heart, Dumb, Blind

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

  Francine Pascal

  Light, Shining, Luck

  Francine Pascal (2003). “Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

  Francine Pascal

  Real, Caring, Lessons

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

  Francine Pascal

  Opportunity, People, Brave

  Francine Pascal (2003). “Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

  Francine Pascal

  Heart, Body, Stupidest

  Francine Pascal (2003). “Shock”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature compensates for its mistakes.

  Francine Pascal

  Mistake

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

  Francine Pascal

  Book, Reading, More The Merrier

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• I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

  Francine Pascal

  Girl, Thinking, Years

  "Have We Got Sweet Valley Scoop For You! The Wakefields Are Back This Weekend, And Author Francine Pascal Tells Us Which Star She Wants to See Play Them Both". Interview with Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. July 12, 2012.

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• When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

  Francine Pascal

  Mean, Firsts, Use

  Francine Pascal (2014). “My First Love and Other Disasters: My First Love and Other Disasters; Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo; My Mother Was Never a Kid”, p.651, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

  Francine Pascal

  Typewriters, Pages, Next

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• But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

  Francine Pascal

  Knowing Love, Tragedy, Dying

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

  Francine Pascal

  Art, Bored, Lectures

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• As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

  Francine Pascal

  Reality, Perfect, Possibility

  Francine Pascal (2013). “Fearless 2: Twisted; Kiss; Payback”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.

  Francine Pascal

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  "How the Sweet Valley girls grew up". Interview With Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

  Francine Pascal

  Pride, Eating, Enough

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

  Francine Pascal

  Girl, Hilarious, Fearless

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

  Francine Pascal

  Way, Emotion, Terrible

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

  Francine Pascal

  Girl, Teacher, School

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Dear Sister (Sweet Valley High #7)”, p.34, Macmillan

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• If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

  Francine Pascal

  Want, Ready, Mess With Me

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• She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.

  Francine Pascal

  Skulls, Brain, Pavement

  Francine Pascal (2003). “Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.

  Francine Pascal

  Funny Things, Want, Awful

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

  Francine Pascal

  Sweet, Sixteen, Good Things

  Francine Pascal (2014). “My First Love and Other Disasters: My First Love and Other Disasters; Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo; My Mother Was Never a Kid”, p.653, Simon and Schuster

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• I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.

  Francine Pascal

  Sweet, People, Important

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• No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

  Francine Pascal

  Parent, Body, Matter

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• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  Francine Pascal

  Play, Piano, People

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