Cynthia Voigt Quotes

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

The worst things weren't outside of you.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.