Top 78 Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there's news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn't make sense because they perish.
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#5. I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to spend the rest of my life in the cellar, where, in the not too distant future, I'd turn into a toadstool. I hoped I'd be the poisonous variety.
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#6. What interests me more than dramatic heroics are the domestic things: How do people do laundry and find food when the world is about to end?
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#7. Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.
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#8. This past year I grew up to know hunger, grief, darkness, fear. I began to understand how lonely you can feel even when all you want is to be alone.
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#9. Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
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#10. Maybe we lost the things we loved then so we could survive losing every thing else.
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#12. 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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#14. One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.
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#15. Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?
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#16. I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.
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#17. I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.
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#18. My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.
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#20. Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end."
"Should I try Fox News?" I asked.
Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.
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#21. So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.
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#22. Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth.
"No, it isn'T," Mom said, folding her lawn chair and carrying it to the front of the house. "And yes, you do have to go to school tomorrow.
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#23. Their eyes were usually open, and they stared up at the moon that had killed them.
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#24. It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.
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#25. I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments
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#26. 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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#27. What we were concerned about - what seems to be happening now - is volcanoes,
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#28. About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on.
Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?
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#30. This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.
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#31. Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.
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#32. Todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.
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#33. If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
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#36. Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.
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#37. Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.
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#38. All my life I've been well behaved," she said. "It's about time I got to push people around and not apologize.
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#39. I had finished the first draft of 'Life As We Knew It' before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world.
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#40. But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.
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#42. Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids
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#43. The darkest sky is filled with stars, that the sun casts its warmth on the coldest day.
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#44. Even in good times we didn't socialize with most of our neighbors. Mom says when she was growing up she did, but so many of the old families have moved out and new people moved in and neighborliness has changed. Now being a good neighbor means minding your own business.
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#45. Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.
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#47. When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.
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#48. 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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#49. Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.
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#50. Woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself
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#51. The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.
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#52. So we each had a piece of chocolate for dessert. I'd almost forgotten how much I love chocolate, how there's something about it that makes life a little more wonderful.
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#53. The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.
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#54. He walked out of the office to find Kevin Daley standing there. 'I like your style,' Kevin said.
Thank you,' Alex said. 'I like it, too.
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#55. We can't accept that things will always be bad. If we do, we won't fight to make things better.
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#56. Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said.
Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.
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#57. But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.
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#58. But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.
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#59. What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.
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#62. Life's sloppy ... You think you know how tomorrow's going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. 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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#63. Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.
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#64. 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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#65. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But
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#67. We could never truly understand God's will. We have to trust God, have faith in Him, and follow the rules He gave us without ever understanding Him.
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#68. That's the function of big brothers ... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing.
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#69. But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.
- Charlie
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#70. 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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#72. I wondered how many people had sung By the dawn's early light' yesterday and were dead today.
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#73. There's a difference between charity and love," I said. "What we're offering is love. Love lasts forever.
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#75. 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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#76. Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life
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#77. 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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#78. Do people ever realize how precious life is? I know I never did before. There was always time. There was always a future.
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