Quotes from Wendy Mass

The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.

They say the eyes are the window to the soul.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

Whereever you end up; Jack whispered into my ear.I wish you clear skies. Always

I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, I'm sparkling, you'll have a whole different energy and experience.

Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.

You never know, life is short but it's wide

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

Whoa! she says as I plow into her. What are you DOING? Get off me! I hang on tight. Can't a girl just hug her big sister? She stops fighting me. Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. No one died. Then get off!

Life is short...eat desert first!

The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.

Why do you like books so much?" he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. "You never know what you'll learn when you open one. And if it's a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.