Carolyn Mackler Quotes & Sayings

Josh is loving and kind, and he knows me better than anyone. He knows the real me, and he likes me for who I am. Josh is ... Josh. And now he's gone. I press my wet face into my pillow. This is what heartbreak feels like. — Carolyn Mackler

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them. — Carolyn Mackler

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you. — Carolyn Mackler

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up. — Carolyn Mackler

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that. — Carolyn Mackler

Never underestimate yourself — Carolyn Mackler

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki. — Carolyn Mackler

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience. — Carolyn Mackler

Ted and I had history," Jake said. "We were in love. This hurts all the time. I never stop thinking about how much this hurts."
Zoe stretched out her arms and pretended to play a goddamn violin. — Carolyn Mackler

And also ... well ... i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms."
What'd they say?"
Over their dead bodies."
What did you say?"
I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated. — Carolyn Mackler

Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck. — Carolyn Mackler

Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me. — Carolyn Mackler

He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after. — Carolyn Mackler

It freaks me out to stare at myself, especially my eyes, and know all those things I've been thinking inside — Carolyn Mackler

While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons. — Carolyn Mackler

Josh is ... Josh — Carolyn Mackler

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience. — Carolyn Mackler

I'm not saying you didn't deserve it, O." Dakota laughed. "But I'm restocking the karma bank and you're at the top of my list. — Carolyn Mackler

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain. — Carolyn Mackler

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever. — Carolyn Mackler

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging. — Carolyn Mackler

It's all a lie. I said to myself. Romance. This notion that some guy is going to swoop and fall madly in love with me and change my life and make everything perfect. It's one big, horrible lie and I bought it. Hook, line, and a ten thousand-pound sinker. Or I guess I should say it's a lie for a girl like me. For Skye, that's another story. The first time Dakota kissed me, down at the hot tub, I remember thinking, this is too good to be true. But if something feels too good to be true, maybe it's not true. Maybe the truth is that Skye deserves him. She'll always be the winner. And I, pathetically, will always be me. — Carolyn Mackler

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later. — Carolyn Mackler

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all. — Carolyn Mackler

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — Carolyn Mackler

I guess quotes make me feel more connected. — Carolyn Mackler

Whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should — Carolyn Mackler

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls. — Carolyn Mackler

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked. — Carolyn Mackler

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost. — Carolyn Mackler

Hey, I wish we hung out more in high school. Why didn't we?"
"I was hiding," Jake said thoughtfully.
"Me too."
"You?"
"In my own way."
Hearing that made Jake wonder if they'd all been in hiding, if he hadn't been the only one who'd felt alone for so much of high school.""Hey, I wish we hung out more in high school. Why didn't we?"
"I was hiding," Jake said thoughtfully.
"Me too."
"You?"
"In my own way."
Hearing that made Jake wonder if they'd all been in hiding, if he hadn't been the only one who'd felt alone for so much of high school."
Excerpt From: Carolyn Mackler. "Infinite in Between." iBooks. — Carolyn Mackler

The Fat Girl Code of Conduct:
1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection.
2. Don't discuss your weight with him.
3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can't sell him on your body, you'd better overcompensate with sexual perks.
4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing. — Carolyn Mackler

I need to acknowledge that she may have controlled my past, but she doesn't have to dominate my present and my future, too — Carolyn Mackler

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading. — Carolyn Mackler

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real. — Carolyn Mackler

Life's a car ride ... Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads. — Carolyn Mackler