Amy Krouse Rosenthal Quotes & Sayings

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose? — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences ... It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy, Papa Pea would say. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

My brother, who grew up with three sisters, was I won't say how many years old when he finally realized that he did not have to wrap the towel around his chest when he came out of the shower. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it ... — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie ... in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal