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

Susan Beth Pfeffer

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“Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of the book and the lineage of people constructing novels are always part of the story the author is telling. I think the equivalent for memoir should be that all memoirs are, in some way, about the process of memory. Memoirs are made out of a confusing, flawed act of creation.”
“I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.”
“If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.”
“We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.”
“The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging works of literature. Works of literature that in the United States would sell only a few thousand copies, if they managed to find a publisher at all. The success of these texts in Spain or Italy or wherever contributes to a kind of national conversation that we're perhaps not having here in the U.S.”

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“Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty?”
“I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything”
“My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.”

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