Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes

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

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  Motivational, Self Motivation, Way

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Wonder, Ifs

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Hate, Moon, Volcanoes

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Doe, Surprise

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

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  Past, May, Deny

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Healthy, Alive, Good Times

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  World, Might, Today

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Moon, Looks, Marie

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Caring, Earthquakes, Diaries

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Cookies, World, Want

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't stop believing in miracles.

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  Believe, Miracle, Don't Stop Believing

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2010). “The Dead and The Gone”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Saint, World, Adolescence

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.426, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Paradise, May, Today

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Funny Things, World, Ends

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Mcdonalds, World, Ends

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Rocks, Forever, World

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Anarchy, Causes, Sometimes

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

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  Band, World, Fixing

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Stars, Flower, Taken

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

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  Real, Sleep, Bed

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• 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

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  Promise, Alex, Tomorrow

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• 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.

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  Want, Rise Above, Said

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Eye, Moon, Night

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He taught me to trust in tomorrow.

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  Taught, Tomorrow

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• ...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.

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  Mom, Children, Thinking

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