"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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Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Beth Pfeffer

“People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.”
“My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.”
“James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.”
“And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.”
“Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.”
“How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?”
“I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.”
“And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.”

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