More from Barbara Park
I don’t really believe in pretending to be happy when you’re not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park I’m not actually sure I’m grown-up enough for grown-up books.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can’t control your sadness.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park I don’t even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park Sometimes grown ups don’t act their right old age
Barbara ParkBarbara Park Can’t we be friends?’ I hate your guts, Frankovitch’ Can’t our guts be friends?
Barbara ParkBarbara Park Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. It’s perfectly okay to take a book, read it, have a good time, giggle and laugh – and turn off the TV. I love that.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not as exciting as being a television star, but it’s not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you’re finished resting.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park Our nannas are losers.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park I’m so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it’s hard to nudge me out of it.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don’t like Beatrice. I just like B and that’s all.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park And sometimes when you’re very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn’t do.
Barbara ParkBarbara Park
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And that is how time heals, not by erasing but by blurring all the memories.
VesmirVesmir Let me follow my dream. Let me follow my queen.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Be kind to yourself, the way you would be to someone you love.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell We need to surrender ourselves to the water before we can climb the spiral ladder.
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett Giving up your dreams is easy, but ask yourself is it really easy to live without dreams?
Sania AbbasSania Abbas It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’ – but I actually mean sad.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki You can’t keep living backwards – Reminiscing on what was, And terrified to pursue What could be.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
Pat ConroyPat Conroy We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams I took his suggestion to heart and went from a “know-it-all” to a “learn-it-all.”
T. Harv EkerT. Harv Eker I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
Pat ConroyPat Conroy Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams
