Quotes from Elizabeth Chandler

So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?

Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.

Then come on up. DO everyone a favor and shut me up," he said. "Put down your money, pick up that ball, and let it fly, looker." "I'd rather not" People laughed. He flapped his arms and squawked like a chicken "Afraid you can't throw that far?" "I know I can" He lifted his hat in a small salute to my claim. Blond curls slipped out, then he plopped the hat back on and said, "I dare you.

The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.

What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

It was Nick's voice Nick's arms. He turned me on my back and swam with me, pulling me to the bank.

Good dog! Nice fetch!" "He wasn't fetching." "Bring her here, boy. Good job!" The dog looked from Zack to me. "I've been training him," Zack said. "Up till now he's brought home only dead rabbits, but I guess he's finally getting the hang of it.

Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul" He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?" "It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.

He can't remeber who he is or where he lives." "Well that's convenient." "Not when it rains.

Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten

I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.

You've grown up, girl. You've grown up real nice, Welcome home

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.

Aun en la muerte, te quiero junto a mi.

People are vicious. They will turn on you.

Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices.

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

Carelessness, when it's continual, is as bad as intentional jerkiness.

Ever notice how really smart people enjoy making silly jokes?