Carolyn Mackler Quotes

• On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Dog, Valentine, School

  Carolyn Mackler (2011). “Vegan Virgin Valentine”, p.82, Candlewick Press

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• Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

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  Life, Car, Sometimes

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• Never underestimate yourself

  Carolyn Mackler

  Self Esteem, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Soul, Existence

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• It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Morning, Past, Simple

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• But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Past, Months, Life Is

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• There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Sometimes, Reason, Definite

  Carolyn Mackler (2011). “Vegan Virgin Valentine”, p.135, Candlewick Press

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• And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms." What'd they say?" Over their dead bodies." What did you say?" I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Years, Body, Want

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• I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Song, Cds, Missing

  "'The Future of Us': Authors Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler talk time travel, 90's pop culture". Interview with Stephan Lee, ew.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Thinking, Being Bullied, Bullied

  "Writers Reflect On Childhood Torment In 'Dear Bully'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 7, 2011.

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• My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Being Bullied, Made, Compassionate

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• The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

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  Powerful, Book, Reading

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• Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

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  Gente, Golosinas

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• Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

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  Mean, Decision, Forever

  Carolyn Mackler (2011). “Vegan Virgin Valentine”, p.135, Candlewick Press

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• I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Feels, Connected

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• You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Vacation, Cake, Waikiki

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

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  Hurt, Pain, Problem

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Real, Flaws, Said

  Carolyn Mackler (2012). “Guyaholic”, p.91, Candlewick Press

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• Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Digging, Remember, Holes

  Carolyn Mackler (2009). “Love and Other Four-Letter Words”, p.184, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

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  Life, Steps, Remember

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• El código de conducta de las chicas gordas: 1. Cualquier actividad sexual es un secreto. No hay demostraciones públicas de afecto. 2. No hables de tu peso con él. 3. Ve más allá de las chicas delgadas. Si no puedes venderle tu cuerpo, mejor compénsalo con ventajas sexuales. 4. Nunca, nunca, nunca, nunca insistas en lo de la relación.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Girl, Secret, Weight

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• Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

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  Self Esteem, Creative, Quirky

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