Deborah Reber Quotes

#1. As long as I live, when you need help, you will never need to beg anyone to notice. I won't just hang around thinking I ought to do something to help.
I will act.

Nancy Werlin

#2. We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.

Deborah Reber

#3. Letting go is the hardest part ... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain you caused them is that same pain you feel now.

Deborah Reber

#4. I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.

Deborah Reber

#5. Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?

J.K. Rowling

#6. Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.

Diane Ackerman

#7. The breeze at the beach has a secret song in her heart which always lures us back.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

Bill Maher

#9. Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

S. Parkes Cadman

#10. Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Deborah Reber

#11. Man's awesome scientific advances into the infinitude of space as well as the infinitude of sub-atomic particles seems most likely to lead to the total destruction of our world unless we can make great advances in understanding and dealing with interpersonal and inter-group tensions. I

Carl R. Rogers

#12. I fight because international law recognises my right.

Xanana Gusmao

#13. The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Deborah Reber

#14. I think it can be incredibly powerful for a teen to be able to put their story out there for others to soak in, learn from, relate to. In some ways, it validates their experience, which for teens (or for anybody, really) is a pretty huge deal.

Deborah Reber

#15. I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.

Deborah Reber

#16. It may not always feel wonderful. but you're out there doing it. You're running while others are just walking. Or sitting around. I mean, come on - you're out there running, for goodness sake. You're to be taken seriously.

Deborah Reber

#17. There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Deborah Reber

#18. Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

Deborah Reber

#19. People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

Donald Trump

#20. My goal in writing for teens and tweens is to help my audience feel inspired and empowered today, to find their voice today, to believe that they can truly design the life of their dreams ... today. I mean seriously ... why wait?

Deborah Reber

#21. Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

Deborah Reber

#22. It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

Deval Patrick

#23. All energy has an origin and carries with it the life spark of its creation. Energy that exists today has a lineage of origin that can be traced back to the beginning of the universe.

Stephen Joseph Mitskavich

#24. Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson