"What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said."

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Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Beth Pfeffer

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“I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.”
“Donâ€™t be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day.”
“I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.”
“Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”

Source : Edward Humes (2015). “No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
“Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
“Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.”
“For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.”

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