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When in doubt, shut up.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Bianca and Mindy crept into the room like great big fashionable mice.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
— Caroline B. Cooney
What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!
— Caroline B. Cooney
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Listen to the sea ... it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.
— Caroline B. Cooney
My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.
— Caroline B. Cooney
But West, like the rest of the Trevors, was endlessly polite. It gave them protection; they could stand neatly behind their courtesy.
— Caroline B. Cooney
She had spent the summer forgetting to be English--and Tannhahorens had spent the summer forgetting the same thing.
— Caroline B. Cooney
You must love teaching', one mother said to Mr. Shevvington. 'Yes indeed. I think of each class as a zoo.' He laughed..'Twenty-six to a cage.
— Caroline B. Cooney
If she dreamed, she did not remember when she awoke.
— Caroline B. Cooney
It wasn't that she stopped being nice; she stopped being anything
— Caroline B. Cooney
Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.
— Caroline B. Cooney
She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I have no beliefs," said her mother. "Only hopes.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
— Caroline B. Cooney
People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
— Caroline B. Cooney
father knocked on her door. "Kitten? May I come
— Caroline B. Cooney
She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.
— Caroline B. Cooney
More clumsily,he put his arm around her and tried to hug. They were definitely amateurs at showing affection.
— Caroline B. Cooney
How can you be somebody else's savior, when you can't be your own?
— Caroline B. Cooney
Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary.It Mattered. — Caroline B. Cooney
wanted is a good action book
— Caroline B. Cooney
I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
— Caroline B. Cooney
And Ruth was the last person to whom a sensible Indian would hand a weapon.
— Caroline B. Cooney
But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Who was Florinda, and why did she faint so often that she needed a special couch on which to do it?
— Caroline B. Cooney
But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
— Caroline B. Cooney
The only evil is that I don't mind that it happened.
— Caroline B. Cooney
How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard.
— Caroline B. Cooney
It's been one nightmare after another, Christina thought. Pretty soon I won't be able to keep track of them all.
— Caroline B. Cooney
She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.
— Caroline B. Cooney
She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.
— Caroline B. Cooney
I'm interesting, she thought. I'm unusual. But I'm not beautiful ...
— Caroline B. Cooney
To be believed, you had to have the support of the Somebodies
— Caroline B. Cooney