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When in doubt, shut up. — Caroline B. Cooney

it her fault that the graveyard has the best dirt? She loves her plants! Just — Ellen 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

No life should pass unnoticed. — Eleanor 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

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

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics. — Gerry Cooney

The only evil is that I don't mind that it happened. — Caroline B. Cooney

Male leaders are celebrated for their successes, while their excesses are typically excused as the necessary and expected price of masculine ambition. — Kara Cooney

father knocked on her door. "Kitten? May I come — Caroline B. Cooney

Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic. — Caroline B. Cooney

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. — 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

When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing. — Gerry 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 wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break. — Joan Ganz Cooney

I have no beliefs," said her mother. "Only hopes. — Caroline B. Cooney

She was healthy & thriving, like a weed: a weed with no interest in trying to become, say, a proper flower. — Ellen Cooney

Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds. — Caroline B. Cooney

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials! — Joan Ganz Cooney

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me. — Caroline B. Cooney

It wasn't that she stopped being nice; she stopped being anything — Caroline B. Cooney

If she dreamed, she did not remember when she awoke. — Caroline B. Cooney

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away. — Gerry 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

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

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion. — Gerry Cooney

She had spent the summer forgetting to be English--and Tannhahorens had spent the summer forgetting the same thing. — 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

My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long. — Barbara 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

My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on. — C.S.E. 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

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. — Joan Ganz 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

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore. — Gerry Cooney

To be believed, you had to have the support of the Somebodies — 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

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful. — Gerry Cooney

You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius — Barbara Cooney

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time. — Gerry 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 was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. — Gerry 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

then the bottom fell out of everything that used to have a bottom, and now she's expected to kill her own plants. At — Ellen Cooney

She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines. — Caroline B. Cooney

I'm interesting, she thought. I'm unusual. But I'm not beautiful ... — Caroline B. Cooney