Cynthia Lord Quotes & Sayings

When someone is upset, it's not a good time to bring up your own problems. — Cynthia Lord

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true.
Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth. — Cynthia Lord

Maybe it's kinder not to remember, because you don't have to grieve. — Cynthia Lord

Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful — Cynthia Lord

Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another. — Cynthia Lord

Different can be good. It makes you pay attention -Dr. Katz — Cynthia Lord

Touch blue and your wish will come true. — Cynthia Lord

Looking closer can make something beautiful — Cynthia Lord

Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman. — Cynthia Lord

Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere — Cynthia Lord

Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David'd wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he'd say, Jeez, Catherine, where have I been? — Cynthia Lord

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated. — Cynthia Lord

Oh, people will think what they think! ... Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do. — Cynthia Lord

Maybe when we see things all the time, we stop really looking at them. And it takes an artist, someone who can look past the ordinariness, to remind us how special they really are" -Lily — Cynthia Lord

Don't stand in front of the TV when other people are watching it. — Cynthia Lord

People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want. — Cynthia Lord

How else can hopes go but up? — Cynthia Lord

Just this once, let it be easy. — Cynthia Lord

...choosing words is harder than I thought. — Cynthia Lord

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing. — Cynthia Lord

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. — Cynthia Lord

I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all" -Salma — Cynthia Lord

Cathrine pretty today. I nod, yes it's a very pretty day. Jason touches my arm. Cathrine pretty. — Cynthia Lord

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share. — Cynthia Lord

You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner. — Cynthia Lord

When you say something stupid, gloss over it with superfast talking and maybe no one'll notice. — Cynthia Lord

Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do. — Cynthia Lord

Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us. — Cynthia Lord

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you! — Cynthia Lord

I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared." -Lily — Cynthia Lord

Good things matter, even when they don't last forever. — Cynthia Lord

One problem with agreeing to keep a secret is that it always starts off feeling like an easy, little decision. But it doesn't stay easy or little. it sits there like one of those jagged ledges hiding under the surface of the ocean at high tide - quietly waiting to rip everything apart if you forget, for even a second, it's there. — Cynthia Lord

Most people say if you tell a wish it won't come true. But I don't think wishes work like that. I don't believe there's some bad-tempered wish-fairy with a clipboard, checking off whether or not you've told ... But it's a long shot I'll get my wish, so even if there is a fairy in charge of telling, it won't matter.
'I wish everyone had the same chances,' I say. 'Because it stinks a big one that they don't. What about you? What did you wish for?'
'Grape soda.'
I can't help smiling. 'You wished for grape soda?' He doesn't answer, and I pull my hand from my pocket. Taking one of his fluttering hands, I wrap his fingers tightly around a dollar. 'Wish granted, toad.'
He takes off running and Dad runs after him.
I close my eyes and make a new wish.
I wish the refreshment stand has grape soda. — Cynthia Lord

If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, Sorry, gotta go! — Cynthia Lord

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing. — Cynthia Lord

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't. — Cynthia Lord

No toys in the fish tank
— Cynthia Lord

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine — Cynthia Lord