Quotes from Paula Danziger

I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Amber Brown

You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose...but you can't pick your friends' noses. Well, I didn't get to pick my parents. I am glad that I have them, though. I just wish that I wouldn't have to spend the rest of my life picking one of them and not the other. - Amber Brown

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I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Polly

He maybe be a jerk...but he is my jerk...he is my father. - Amber Brown

Soon you will be going on a new journey and beginning a new life.

I feel like a little kid in a toy shop. All those books. I've always wanted to be a writer, but before I met Ms. Finney, Barbara, I was afraid to tell anyone. I think it's some kind of miracle that all we have to work with is the twenty-six letters of the alphabet. And they turn into words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books, conversations, plays. It's just incredible to me.

It's just about impossible to be perfect all the time. In fact, some days it's hard to do anything right. But sometimes things go really well. There are a lot of new things to learn, a lot of new rules and regulations.

I'm learning to be a part of a team, even if the team doesn't always to what I want. - Amber Brown

Not bad. Human. You've really got to stop seeing things as all bad or all good. And you've got to learn that just because someone tells you something that you don't want to hear, doesn't mean that person's out to get you.

got to sit in this big uncomfortable chair with my head leaning back in this groove. The hair washer must have

I know I'm not a perfect dad, Amber. But I'm trying." You don't have to be perfect, I say."Just be my dad.

definitely not best friends

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Well, I, Amber Brown, am green with envy. I am not only green….. I am feeling blue….. I am seeing red….. I am purple with anger….. I am not feeling like a rainbow. I am feeling plaid. All of these colors mix together to make a not very pretty pattern. I, Amber Brown, do not like plaid.