Quotes from Susan Beth Pfeffer

So we each had a piece of chocolate for dessert. I'd almost forgotten how much I love chocolate, how there's something about it that makes life a little more wonderful.

Survivors have responsibilities.

It was easier to agree than to tell the truth.

Bad times made for big secrets.

And then I did what no other athlete has done before. I won 2 Olympic gold medals in 2 different sports in the same afternoon. First I won the cross-country ski race. I went from home to Miller's Pond and won by so much I couldn't even see my competitors. But

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. Not to mention all those zillions of people I've never heard of. All those Homo sapiens and Neanderthals looked at the very same moon as me. It waxed and waned in their sky, too. Of

guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But

history makes us who we are, but we can make history, also, and that anyone can be a hero, if they just choose to be.

Life may not continue the way we know it today, but it will continue. Life endures.

We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.

Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

It's amazing. I never used to like red cabbage, but now when I get only a teaspoon of it, it's all I can think about. How lovely. How tasty. How not fish it is.

guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open. Mom

This life is no more than the blink of an eye compared to life everlasting.

When everything else is boring, there's something to be said for risk.

I never really thought about when I look at the moon it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. Not to mention all those zillions of people I've never heard of. All those Homo sapiens and Neanderthals looked at the very same moon as me. It waxed and waned in their sky too.

But today, when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.

never really thought about how when I look at the moon it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

For that tiny instant, I was every 16-year-old in history, not knowing what the skies foretold about my future.

already starting to forget what normal life felt like, clocks

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.