"But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead."

“What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.”

Source : Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.

“Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.”

“To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.”

“I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.”

“People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.”

“[On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born.”

“There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.