Cynthia Lord Quotes & Sayings

#1. You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.

#2. Cathrine pretty today. I nod, yes it's a very pretty day. Jason touches my arm. Cathrine pretty.

#3. Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

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#4. Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

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#5. No toys in the fish tank

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#6. Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

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#7. Just this once, let it be easy.

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#8. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

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#9. ...choosing words is harder than I thought.

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#10. Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

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#11. Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

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#12. Maybe when we see things all the time, we stop really looking at them. And it takes an artist, someone who can look past the ordinariness, to remind us how special they really are" -Lily

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#13. I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared." -Lily

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#14. Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

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#15. People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.

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#16. Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true.
Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

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#17. Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

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#18. How else can hopes go but up?

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#19. Maybe it's kinder not to remember, because you don't have to grieve.

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#20. Touch blue and your wish will come true.

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#21. When you say something stupid, gloss over it with superfast talking and maybe no one'll notice.

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#22. I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

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#23. It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

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#24. Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.

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#25. It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

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#26. Oh, people will think what they think! ... Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.

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#27. I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all" -Salma

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#28. Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful

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#29. If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, Sorry, gotta go!

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#30. Looking closer can make something beautiful

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#31. Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David'd wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he'd say, Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?

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