"Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today."

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Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Beth Pfeffer

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“God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.”
“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”
“I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.”
“I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.”
“There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.”

Source : "Clémence Poésy interview: Casting a spell". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2010.
“The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.”
“I also see the world of religion. I see some of my brothers and sisters trying to be religious without being fully human. They seem a little rigid and narrow at times, wanting to be holy, but not human. They seem to be winning a place in heaven, without realizing or enjoying the beauty of earth. They keep the ten commandments, but their observances look so joyless. Such a world seems small and the air in that world is stale.”
“I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.”

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